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n. A thick triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint, used to raise the arm from the side.

adj. Triangular.

adj. Of or relating to the deltoid.

n. The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.

n. The deltoid ligament, a triangular ligament on the human ankle.

adj. In the shape of the upper case Greek letter delta Δ; triangular.

adj. Of, or connected with the deltoid muscle

adj. Of a triangular or roughly triangular shape and attached to the stem via the side.

adj. Shaped like the Greek Δ (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.

adj. of or pertaining to the deltoid muscle.

n. the deltoid muscle.

Resembling the Greek letter Δ; triangular.

Specifically— In anatomy:

Forming a triangular place or part; being triangular: as, the deltoid muscle.

Relating to the deltoid muscle: as, the deltoid crest of the humerus.

In entomology, pertaining to or resembling the pyralid moths, or Deltoides.

In botany, triangular or trowel-shaped: as, a deltoid leaf: also applied to the cross-section of a leaf, etc.

n. The large, coarse-fibered, triangular muscle of the shoulder, covering and protecting the joint, arising from the spine of the scapula, the acromion, and the clavicle, and inserted into the deltoid crest of the humerus. Its action raises the arm away from the side of the body. See cut under muscle.

n. In zoology, a deltoid plate.

n. In mathematics, a symmetrical quadrilateral with a diagonal as axis.

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

n. a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm

"They would aim for the muscle that Tariq, in a professorial voice, called the deltoid"

unsubdivided    simple   

striated muscle    skeletal muscle   

deltoid plates    deltoid eminence    deltoid moth    deltoid dodecahedron    delusion of grandeur    delusion of persecution    delusion of negation   

delts    delt    obdeltoid    deltois muscles    deltoid muscle   

delta-shaped    triangular   

trapezius    brachial    ischium    mediastinum    carpal    maxillary    pectoral    cingulate    tarsi    antennæ