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

• Cohan
• coheir
• cohere
• coherence
• coherency
• coherent
• coherently
• cohesion
• cohesive
• cohesively
• cohesiveness
• Cohn
• coho
• coho salmon
• cohoe
• cohort
• cohosh
• cohune
• cohune fat
• cohune nut
• cohune oil
• cohune palm
• cohune-nut oil
• coif
• coiffe