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Clavicles also may be absent in some orders of mammals.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

There are twenty nine in the Breast, viz. twenty four Ribs, two Clavicles or Channel-Bones and commonly three Bones in the Sternum.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The two Depressors are call'd Sternoclinomastoidei; they take their Rise in the Sternum, at the Clavicles, and proceed obliquely to join the Apophysis Mastoides.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Clavicles better developed than in other Carnivora, but not articulating with either the shoulder-bones or sternum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

Masons ignorant of the Clavicles and their contents and the Pantacle of Solomon, 789-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert