girdle

a communications girdle around the world.

a ring of hills that girdled the city.

the chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific.

The appendicular skeleton consists of bones of the shoulder girdle and upper extremity and bones of the pelvic girdle and lower extremity.

the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist.

The rheumatic polymyalgia has the neck shoulder pain, the limb girdle myo- ache and the myasthenia.

mesocoracoid A paired pectoral girdle endochondral bone between the cleithrum dorsally and the coracoid and scapula ventrally.

Their slender figures, girdled with plain silk, tread watchfully on board.

Results: CT measurements, measurements on a posteroanterior thorax radiograph, and 15-degree up-tilted anteroposterior panorama radiograph of the shoulder girdle showed comparable repeatability.