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4. The scapula is a large, flat, triangular bone (Fig. 13). That the ancient Indian anatomists knew it to be a large, flat bone is shown by the fact of their calling it *phalaka*, which word means a board or slab. But it is Suśruta alone who also notes its triangular shape. In the passage quoted in the preceding paragraph he particularly describes it as *trika-sambaddha*, trebly bounded, that is, as being of a triangular form. For the same reason of its triangular shape the sacrum likewise is called