Definition of "supraclavicular" [su•pra•cla•vic•u•lar]

• Above the clavicle (adjective)
• Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle (adjective)

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• "“We clean out or strip the supraclavicular fossa with very few exceptions,” he announced at a surgical conference, reinforcing the notion that conservative, nonradical surgery left the breast somehow “unclean.”"
• "“But even without the proof which we offer, it is, I think, incumbent upon the surgeon to perform in many cases the supraclavicular operation,” he advised in one paper."
• "Large axillary and supraclavicular nodal masses bilaterally; metastatic lesions to bone ribs and spine."