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Deltoid

noun
1.
A large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm.  Synonyms: deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus.
adjective
1.
Triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex.



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"Deltoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... enabled to indulge in a second glass of wine, and also in the luxury of a cigar. Mr. Blades' shirt-sleeves were turned up so as to display the anatomical proportion of his arms; and little Mr. Bouncer, with the grave aspect of a doctor feeling a pulse, was engaged in fingering his deltoid and biceps muscles, and in uttering panegyrics on his friend's ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede

... the seashore or on waste or cultivated ground. The green angular stem is often striped with white or red, and, like the leaves, often more or less covered with mealy hairs. The leaves are entire, lobed or toothed, often more or less deltoid or triangular in shape. The minute flowers are bisexual, and borne in dense axillary or terminal clusters or spikes. The fruit is a membranous one-seeded utricle often enclosed by the persistent calyx. Ten species occur in Britain, one of which, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... confess that during the process I had backed a couple of paces towards the door. He took up a candle, and held it while I bent and examined the thin red line which ran like a circlet around the flesh of the upper arm just below the apex of the deltoid muscle. When I looked up I met his eyes ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch



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