Relating to or connecting the clavicle (collarbone) and the ribs.
From Greek 'kleido-' (clavicle) plus 'costal' (relating to ribs, from Latin 'costa' meaning rib). This compound medical adjective describes anatomical relationships between structures.
Every 'cleid-' word in this list reveals how anatomy became a language puzzle—medieval and Renaissance doctors had to invent new terms as they discovered new structures, and they did it by combining Greek and Latin like a complex Lego set, creating words we use today without thinking about their architectural origin.
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