shoulder-bone
31Shoulder — The shoulder has two main bones: the scapula (the shoulder blade) and the humerus (the long bone of the upper arm). The end of the scapula, called the glenoid, is a socket into which the head of the humerus fits to form a flexible ball and socket …
32shoulder — /shohl deuhr/, n. 1. the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk. 2. Usually, shoulders. these two parts together… …
33Bone, collar — A horizontal bone above the first rib that makes up the front part of the shoulder. The collarbone, also called the clavicle, links the sternum, or breastbone, with the scapula, a triangular bone in the back of the shoulder. The collarbone ends… …
34Bone metastasis — Sclerotic breast cancer metastasizes in the pelvis. Bone metastases, or metastatic bone disease, is a class of cancer metastases that results from primary tumor invasion to bone. Bone originating cancers like osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and… …
35Bone cement — Background =Bone cements have been used very successfully to anchor artificial joints (hip joints, knee joints, shoulder and elbow joints) for more than half a century. Today virtually no routine operations are more successful than the procedure… …
36bone formation — ▪ physiology also called ossification process by which new bone is produced. Ossification begins about the third month of fetal life in humans and is completed by late adolescence. The process takes two general forms, one for compact bone …
37Bone, blade — Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or wing bone, the flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder …
38Bone, wing — Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or blade bone, the flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder …
39bone — Synonyms and related words: adamant, aitchbone, anklebone, anvil, backbone, bill, biscuit, bony, breastbone, brick, buck, calcaneus, cannon bone, carpal, cartilage, cement, chine, clavicle, coccyx, collarbone, con, concrete, contemplate, cracker …
40Shoulder blade — The familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. Known familiarly as the wingbone or, medically, as the scapula. The word scapula (with the accent on the first syllable) is Latin. The Romans always employed the plural scapulae , the …
