Wiktionary
n. A common term for glenohumeral joint.
WordNet
n. a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula [syn: shoulder, articulatio humeri]
Wikipedia
The shoulder joint (or glenohumeral joint from Greek glene, eyeball, + -oid, 'form of', + Latin humerus, shoulder) is a multiaxial synovial ball and socket joint and involves articulation between the glenoid cavity of the scapula (shoulder blade) and the head of the humerus (upper arm bone). Due to the very loose joint capsule that gives a limited interface of the humerus and scapula, it is the most mobile joint of the human body.
Usage examples of "shoulder joint".
Mary cried out as he twisted her arm up behind her back, nearly wrenching her shoulder joint loose.
The elephant was making a strange mournful humming sound deep in his chest, and from the second bullet wound just behind his bony shoulder joint, his heart blood spurted in short regular jets, to the beat of the huge heart, and poured down his body in a honey-thick stream.
He wiped his sweaty palm on a handkerchief he snaked from the opening in his jacket that held his left forearm, withered by a Federation bullet in the shoulder joint.
The bullet hit him in the shoulder joint and blew his right arm off so it hungby a taller of torn flesh and flapped against his side as he spun around.
Not watching her, apparently immersed in the work, he had begun to fillet the meat from the shoulder joint he was holding.
She ended hard on her knees, one arm twisted up behind her back so tightly that her shoulder joint cracked.
Images sloshed back and forth in my rocking brain: breaking teeth, sirens, the creak of his shoulder joint, blood-slicked hands….
The pain in his shoulders was growing, and each time he brought the fork to his mouth he could feel the burning heat of injury moving through the shoulder joint, throbbing its pain into his consciousness.
Torin squeezed off two quick bursts, aiming for the shoulder joint in the lead bug's body armor, then as it jerked back, arm and weapon dangling, she dropped prone and began trying for their legs, forcing the bugs to either fold them in under their abdominal armorbecoming stationary targetsor to retreat.
Torin squeezed off two quick bursts, aiming for the shoulder joint in the lead bug's body armor, then as it jerked back, arm and weapon dangling, she dropped prone and began trying for their legs, forcing the bugs to either fold them in under their abdominal armor—.
The beast's huge arms flew past to either side of the Third - both severed at the shoulder joint by the flanking brothers in their single pass.
Exact same articulation as your shoulder joint, and it holds your muscles out of the way.