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Deltoid

noun

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

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

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"Deltoid" Quotes from Famous Books

... deltoid muscles, a couple of kneecaps, one elbow, and about half a yard of cuticle," said the man, "and he wants them ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... mountainous protuberance of his shirt-bosom, enlightening an admiring friend as to his idiosyncrasies. It appeared that he was that sort of a man that, if a man wanted anything of him, he had only to speak for it "wunst;" and that one of his peculiarities was an instant response of the deltoid muscle to the brain, though he did not express it in that language. He went on to explain to his auditor that he was so constituted physically that whenever he saw a fight, no matter whose property it was, he lost all control of himself. This sort ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... knew as much of the muscles as all persons who look at statues and pictures with a critical eye ought to have learned,—if you knew the trapezius, lying diamond-shaped over the back and shoulders like a monk's cowl,—or the deltoid, which caps the shoulder like an epaulette,—or the triceps, which furnishes the calf of the upper arm,—or the hard-knotted biceps,—any of the great sculptural landmarks, in fact,—you would have said there was a pretty show of them, beneath the white ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various