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Deltoid

noun
1.
A large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm.  Synonyms: deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus.



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deltoid eminence
deltoid leaf
deltoid tuberosity


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"Deltoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... enabled to indulge in a second glass of wine, and also in the luxury of a cigar. Mr. Blades' shirt-sleeves were turned up so as to display the anatomical proportion of his arms; and little Mr. Bouncer, with the grave aspect of a doctor feeling a pulse, was engaged in fingering his deltoid and biceps muscles, and in uttering panegyrics on his friend's ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede


Words linked to "Deltoid" :   deltoid tuberosity, simple, unsubdivided, deltoid eminence, rotator cuff, deltoid leaf, musculus deltoideus, striated muscle, skeletal muscle


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