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[p. 484] paulatim in cartilaginem versae extremis abdominis partibus inhaerescunt; imaque ex his maiore iam parte nihil nisi cartilago est. Rursus a cervice duo lata ossa utrimque ad scapulas tendunt: nostri scutula operta, omoplatas Graeci nominant. Ea summis verticibus sinuata, ab his triangula, paulatimque latescentia ad spinam tendunt; et quo latiora quaque parte sunt, hoc hebetiora. Atque ipsa quoque in imo cartilaginosa posteriore parte velut innatant, quoniam nisi † vel in summo nulli ossi inhaerescunt, ibi vero validis musculis nervisque constricta sunt. At a summa costa paulo interius quam ubi ea media est os excrescit, ibi quidem tenue, procedens vero, quo propius lato scapularum ossi fit, eo plenius latiusque interest paulum in exteriora curvatum; quod altera verticis parte modice intumescens sustinet iugulum. Id autem ipsum recurvum ac neque inter ... durissima ossa numerandum, altero capite in eo, quod posui, altero in exiguo sinu pectoralis ossis insidit, paulumque motu bracchi movetur, et cum lato osse scapularum infra caput eius nervis et cartilagine conectitur. Hinc umerus incipit, extremis utrimque capitibus tumidus, mollis, sine medulla, cartilaginosus: medius teres, durus, medullosus; leniter gibbus et in priorem et in extremam partem. Prior autem pars est, quae a pectore est, posterior, quae a scapulis; interior, quae ad latus tendit, exterior, quae ab eo
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
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