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Directional asymmetry in the human clavicle

✍ Scribed by Simon Mays; James Steele; Mark Ford

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
154 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
1047-482X

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✦ Synopsis

The human right clavicle tends to be shorter than the left. A range of possible explanations can be advanced to account for this asymmetry. In the present work, clavicular morphology was studied in a medieval skeletal assemblage from Wharram Percy, England, with the aim of evaluating these competing explanations. At Wharram Percy, as anticipated, the right clavicle tended to be shorter. Patterns of asymmetry in curvature, robusticity, vascularization, and in the morphology of ligament and muscle attachment sites were also studied. The patterning in these data at Wharram Percy is consistent with inhibition of longitudinal growth of the clavicle on the dominant side due to lateral bias in mechanical loading, particularly in axial compression.

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