1. A large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm
   - deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus

1. Triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex

Derived forms: deltoids

See also: simple, unsubdivided

Type of: skeletal muscle, striated muscle

Part of: rotator cuff

Encyclopedia: Deltoid

• stinking smut
• stinking wattle
• stinking weed
• stinking yew
• stinko
• stinkpot
• stinkweed
• stinkwood
• stinky
• stinky squid
• stint
• stinter
• stinting
• stipe
• stipel
• stipend
• stipendiary
• stipendiary magistrate
• stipple
• stippled
• stippler
• stipular
• stipulate
• stipulation
• stipulative definition