лопђтка shoulder blade

Вдрџг ћн почџвствовал сќльный удђр под лопђтку. Suddenly he felt a sharp blow under his shoulder blade.

Semantics

This entry is concerned with the use of the word лопђтка only with reference to a part of the human body, though the word may also be used in a technical (anatomical) sense with reference to animals. The meaning "small shovel" is not described in this dictionary.

Morphology

лопђтка SS (о) f.in.noun

Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose shoulder blade it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Лопђтки мђльчика сќльно выступђли. The boy's shoulder blades jutted sharply.
На егћ лљвой лопђтке бІло большће крђсное пятнћ. There was a large red mark on his left shoulder blade.
NB When the word лопђтка functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction лопђтка у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Лопђтки у мђльчика сќльно выступђли. The boys shoulder blades jutted sharply.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
лљвая/прђвая лопђтка the left/right shoulder blade
Лљвая лопђтка у негћ сќльно болљла. His left shoulder blade hurt badly.

Lexical Relationships

Diminutives

лопђточка shoulder blade

Syntactic derivatives

лопђточный Anatomical shoulder blade (as modifier)
лопђточная кћсть shoulder blade

Size and shape

худІе лопђтки thin shoulder blades
выступђть [no Pf.]: у Ng лопђткиn выступђют N's shoulder blades jut out

Movements

соединїть/соединќть лопђткиa;
сводќть/свестќ лопђткиa 		to move one's arms in such a way that one's shoulder blades nearly touch
разводќть/развестќ лопђткиa to move one's arms in such a way that one's shoulder blades spread
Соединќте лопђтки! Хорошћ. Тепљрь разведќте лопђтки! Squeeze your shoulder blades together! Good! Now spread your shoulder blades!

Sample texts

Блљдненькая дљвочка... повернџлась ко мнљ худІми подвќжными лопђтками... [В. Набћков, Лолќта] The pale little girl... turned her thin, mobile shoulder blades towards me... [V. Nabokov, Lolita]
Блџзка сзђди тћ отставђла, тћ прилипђла к спинљ, обозначђя впђдину мљжду сведённых лопђток... [В. Набћков, Дђр] ... and her blouse now lagged behind, now clung to her back, designating the hollow between her drawn-back shoulders... [V. Nabokov, The Gift]
У менї стрелїет под лљвой лопђткой. Невралгќя, нављрно. I have a shooting pain under my left shoulder blade. It's probably neuralgia.