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Definition of Glenoid
1. a. Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
Definition of Glenoid
1. Noun. (anatomy) A shallow depression in a bone, especially in the scapula. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to this depression. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glenoid
1. having the shallow or slightly cupped form of a bone socket [adj]
Medical Definition of Glenoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glenoid
Literary usage of Glenoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1880)
"The capsule was not lacerated, but was stripped up with the periosteum from the
anterior margin of the glenoid cavity. A deep indentation is seen on the ..."
2. Surgery: A Practical Treatise with Special Reference to Treatment by Charles William Mansell Moullin (1893)
"... by the tension of the short external rotator muscles and the posterior portion
of the capsule, which are tightly strained across the glenoid fossa. ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"As soon as the groove in the head fits accurately to the anterior glenoid margin,
the pressure of which in the dislocated position produced the groove, ..."
4. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"The glenoid or ARTICULATING CAVITY of the Gle.noid scapula is on the point or
apex of this triangle. The scapula is more strictly triangular in a child, ..."
5. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1907)
"Fracture of the glenoid Cavity. In almost all the instances that are on record
this fracture has been discovered post mortem or during operation after ..."
6. Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians by Aleš Hrdlička (1916)
"The height of the palate shows nothing exceptional, and there is no torus worthy
of notice. XXXI. MUNSEE CRANIA: PALATE HASE OF THE SKULL glenoid ..."
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