Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shoulder_joint

1 sense of shoulder joint

Sense 1
shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri -- (a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula)
       => ball-and-socket joint, spheroid joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea -- (a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone)

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