Glenoid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GLENOID in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a cup-shaped socket
• shallow cavity
ADJECTIVE [ANATOMY.]:
• shallow or slightly cupped, as the articular cavities of the scapula and the temporal bone.
• pertaining to such a cavity.
ADJECTIVE:
• slightly cupped; socket-shaped, also GLENOIDAL
• resembling or having a shallow cavity
• Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having the shallow or slightly cupped form of a bone socket

Words related to GLENOID

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Words that contain GLENOID

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How to use GLENOID in a sentence

• Because of the large humeral head articulating as it does with a glenoid cavity, scapulohumeral luxations are very rare in the horse.
• The condyle of the lower jaw is so broad, and fits so accurately into its socket, the glenoid cavity, that there can be no departure from the up and down scissor-like action.

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