shoulder-joint
The joint of the shoulder; the articulation by which the arm or foreleg is connected with the trunk.
| 1726 Pope Odyss. xix. 520 Ulysses..Soon..the wound repay'd; To the right shoulder-joint the spear apply'd. 1875 Sir W. Turner in Encycl. Brit. I. 838/2 The Shoulder Joint is a ball-and-socket joint, the ball being the head of the humerus, the socket the glenoid fossa of the scapula. |