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Deltoid adj.

Shaped like the Greek delta; delta-shaped; triangular.

Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base.

Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint, which serves to raise the arm directly upward.

Of or pertaining to the deltoid muscle.

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Etymology of 'Deltoid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deltoid" Quotes from Famous Books

... we distinguish the deltoid or shoulder movement, the inflection of the fore-arm, the elbow, the wrist, ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... Berna should let them know when he had done it by closing one of his eyes, that they might verify it. The parts to be deprived of sensibility were the chin, the right thumb, the region of the left deltoid, and that of the right patella." M. Berna would not accept these conditions, giving for his reason that the parts pointed out by the Commissioners were too limited; that, besides, all this was out of his programme, and he did not ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

... subject to rheumatic affection of the deltoid muscle, had felt the usual inconveniences from it for two or three days; but at night found the pain had extended down the arm, along the inside of the fore-arm, and on the sides of the fingers, in which a continual tingling was felt. The pain, without being extremely intense, was such as effectually ...

— An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson

Words linked to "Deltoid" : deltoid tuberosity, deltoid leaf, simple, musculus deltoideus, unsubdivided, deltoid muscle, striated muscle, deltoid eminence