GLENOID CAVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glenoid cavity mean? 

• GLENOID CAVITY (noun)
  The noun GLENOID CAVITY has 1 sense:

1. the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint

  Familiarity information: GLENOID CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLENOID CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

glenoid cavity; glenoid fossa

Hypernyms ("glenoid cavity" is a kind of...):

fossa; pit (a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression))

Holonyms ("glenoid cavity" is a part of...):

scapula; shoulder blade; shoulder bone (either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings)

 Context examples 

The upper rounded part of the humerus that fits into the glenoid cavity of the scapula.

(Head of the Humerus, NCI Thesaurus)