12 November 2006  Ucipital mapilary?  I heard something sounding
like ucipital mapilary when I was watching on channel 5 this
evening Dracula: Dead and Loving It, a horror spoof in which a
clumsy, accident-prone incarnation of Bram Stoker's famous
vampire count left Transylvania for London in pursuit of a young
Englishwoman. Having not a clue about what the term really
means, I did some research.  In the end I found out that
ucipital mapilary is the suprasternal notch (or in Latin lacuna
suprasternalis), the visible, little indentation between
clavicles (collarbones, the pair of bones joining the breastbone
to the shoulder blades), which is regarded as the mark of true
beauty.  If you are by any chance a medical student, doctor,
anatomist or sort of forensic expert, don't tell me there is no
such term in Gray's Anatomy, because it's actually a fictional
term coined by the screenwriter Samson Raphaelson for the 1941
Hitchcock thriller Suspicion, in which an exchange between
Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) and Li