Akademik

shoulder joint

noun

a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula

• Syn: ↑shoulder, ↑articulatio humeri

• Derivationally related forms: ↑shoulder (for: ↑shoulder)

• Hypernyms: ↑ball-and-socket joint, ↑spheroid joint, ↑cotyloid joint, ↑enarthrodial joint, ↑enarthrosis, ↑articulatio spheroidea

• Part Holonyms: ↑torso, ↑trunk, ↑body

• Part Meronyms:

↑scapula, ↑shoulder blade, ↑shoulder bone, ↑circumflex humeral artery, ↑arteria circumflexa humeri, ↑circumflex scapular artery, ↑arteria circumflexa scapulae, ↑rotator cuff

Useful english dictionary. 2012.