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Deltoid

noun

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.

adjective

Triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex.

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... identification of the body seemed to be necessary to set all doubt at rest. The state of the arm, the one that had been broken by the lion, supplied the crucial evidence. "Exactly in the region of the attachment of the deltoid to the humerus" (said Sir William Fergusson in a contribution to the Lancet, April 18, 1874), "there were the indications of an oblique fracture. On moving the arm there were the indications of an ununited fracture. ...

— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie

... we distinguish the deltoid or shoulder movement, the inflection of the fore-arm, the elbow, the wrist, ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... Berna should let them know when he had done it by closing one of his eyes, that they might verify it. The parts to be deprived of sensibility were the chin, the right thumb, the region of the left deltoid, and that of the right patella." M. Berna would not accept these conditions, giving for his reason that the parts pointed out by the Commissioners were too limited; that, besides, all this was out of his programme, and he did not ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

... subject to rheumatic affection of the deltoid muscle, had felt the usual inconveniences from it for two or three days; but at night found the pain had extended down the arm, along the inside of the fore-arm, and on the sides of the fingers, in which a continual tingling was felt. The pain, without being extremely intense, was such as effectually ...

— An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson