ROTATOR CUFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rotator cuff mean? 

• ROTATOR CUFF (noun)
  The noun ROTATOR CUFF has 1 sense:

1. a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move

  Familiarity information: ROTATOR CUFF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROTATOR CUFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("rotator cuff" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Meronyms (parts of "rotator cuff"):

deltoid; deltoid muscle; musculus deltoideus (a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm)

Holonyms ("rotator cuff" is a part of...):

articulatio humeri; shoulder; shoulder joint (a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula)

 Context examples 

One of the four muscles comprising the rotator cuff that is triangular in shape and extends from the infraspinatus fossa of the scapula to the greater tubercle of the humerus.

(Infraspinatus, NCI Thesaurus)