The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glenoid \Gle"noid\, a. [Gr. ?; ? socket of a joint + e'i^dos form; cf. F. gl['e]no["i]de.] (Anat.) 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.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to this depression. n. (context anatomy English) A shallow depression in a bone, especially in the scapula.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "glenoid".
Herbivora, or the vertical cutting one of the flesh-eating mammals, the rodent has a longitudinal motion given by the arrangement of the lower jaw, the condyle of which is not transverse, but parallel with the median line of the skull, and the glenoid fossa, or cavity into which it fits, and which is situated on the under side of the posterior root of the zygoma, is so open in front as to allow of a backwards and forwards sliding action.