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  • noun Plural form of scalene.

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  • In order of importance, they are: your diaphragm, the primary mover, a mushroom-shaped dome at the base of your ribs your intercostals (external and internal), which connect your ribs your sternocleidomastoid, at the front of your neck, and your scalenes, at the sides of your neck

    Erica Heinz: How To Cure The Hiccups! 2009

  • It's those scalenes that'll bite ya in the arse; believe you me, I've watched those circles of certainty and they're stuffed with scalenes; so, natch, I keep my distance with equilateral equanimity, of course.

    Equivocal monument ... Frank Wilson 2008

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