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Shoulder joint

noun

A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula. Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder.

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"Shoulder joint" Quotes from Famous Books

... close to the shoulder joint," he announced. "Collar-bone too. I'll give him some brandy. Shout to those ...

— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss

... where she had fallen, breathless from the shock; then she lifted herself slowly up. One arm hung useless by her side; it was dislocated at the shoulder joint; but the other was raised to heaven, and she muttered some words in her native tongue, and then turned and walked away until she ...

— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... from the saddle, my foot and the staff that I carry for placing my compass on catching in the stirrup-iron. Finding that he was dragging me, he commenced kicking at a fearful rate; he struck me on the shoulder joint, knocked my hat off, and grazed my forehead. I soon got clear, but found the kick on my shoulder very painful. Mounted again, and at seven miles we came upon some more low hills with another prominent peak of a dark-red sandstone. This I have named Mount Peake, after E.J. Peake, Esquire, of ...

— Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart • John McDouall Stuart

Words linked to "Shoulder joint" : shoulder blade, rotator cuff, scapula, ball-and-socket joint, enarthrodial joint, body, spheroid joint, articulatio humeri, enarthrosis, circumflex humeral artery, shoulder bone, articulatio spheroidea, circumflex scapular artery, trunk, cotyloid joint, shoulder, torso, arteria circumflexa humeri, arteria circumflexa scapulae