shoulder joint
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synovial ball and socket joint in the shoulder
Key facts
- Latin
- articulatio humeri
- Mesh
- D012785
- Ta98
- A03.5.08.001
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
45,780 papers- Shoulder Osteoarthritis.Radiologic clinics of North America · 2022
- [Shoulder joint instability].Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie · 2010
- [Shoulder arthroplasty].Der Orthopade · 2021
- [Shoulder joint replacement].Archiv fur orthopadische und Unfall-Chirurgie · 1973
- The Hill-Sachs lesion: diagnosis, classification, and management.The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · 2012
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Encyclopedic overview
The shoulder joint (or glenohumeral joint from Greek glene, eyeball, + -oid, 'form of', + Latin humerus, shoulder) is structurally classified as a synovial ball-and-socket joint and functionally as a diarthrosis and multiaxial joint. It involves an articulation between the glenoid fossa of the scapula (shoulder blade) and the head of the humerus (upper arm bone). Due to the very loose joint capsule, it gives a limited interface of the humerus and scapula and is the most mobile joint of the human body. Comparatively, the shoulder joint differs in other species, providing different movements, locations, etc, in comparison to humans.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shoulder joint” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.