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deltoid

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Future nasal Covid vaccines may provide sterilizing immunity, but current injections into the deltoid muscle do not.

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Quick take

In the shape of the uppercase Greek letter delta (Δ); triangular.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of deltoid gathered in one view.

adjective

In the shape of the uppercase Greek letter delta (Δ); triangular.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the deltoid muscle.

noun

(anatomy) The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deltoid.

Example sentences

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Future nasal Covid vaccines may provide sterilizing immunity, but current injections into the deltoid muscle do not.

2

John McPhee wrote a fine book on the effort to commercialize lighter than air heavy transport: The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.

3

The vaccine produces spike protein within your deltoid muscle cells, where it is rapidly degraded and presented to your immune system.

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Future nasal vaccines may provide sterilizing immunity, but injections into the deltoid muscle do not.

5

So understandably I was pretty shocked to find out that the deltoid actually has 7 (!) distinct segments...

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I think it's been proposed, and a book on one such proposal is John McPhee's _The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed_.

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And young male athletes with the greatest development of blood supply in the deltoid represent the most common demographic affected by acute cardiovascular injury post vaccine.

8

If you take an intramuscular injection without aspirating the needle to make sure it's not found a blood vessel in the deltoid, you risk cardiovascular damage pointlessly.

9

Phabricator, Workplace, Scuba, Deltoid and a bunch of others.

10

Moving the mouse closer to the keyboard decreases the distance between your elbow and your body, which helps relieve your trapezius and deltoid muscles, but does not affect elbow angle.

11

As far as I understand the targeted deltoid muscle is a cell with a long life therefore procuding and releasing spikes for a yet unkown timeframe.

12

At the same time, an important part of ankle anatomy is often left unfixed (the deltoid ligament) because a few studies back in the 80s found it wasn't necessary to fix it.

Quote examples

1

"fluid" operations when the laptop was on my lap suddenly difficult, even painful with my deltoid injury.

2

Vaccines delivered by injection to the deltoid muscle provide blood/serum defenses, we could call that "Layer 2", defending against whatever makes it past Layer 1.

3

One of my favorites, which I read as a teenager in the 70s, was "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed", about a startup that tried to commercialize a hybrid airship/airfoil craft.

4

I've read his "Basin and Range" (geology), "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed" (aircraft design), and "The Curve of Binding Energy" (nuclear weapons).

Proper noun examples

1

I do miss 2017 Scuba, Workplace, and Deltoid, since they worked well in Facebook's ecosystem.

2

I don't work there anymore, but gods I miss Deltoid.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use deltoid in a sentence?

Future nasal Covid vaccines may provide sterilizing immunity, but current injections into the deltoid muscle do not.

What does deltoid mean?

In the shape of the uppercase Greek letter delta (Δ); triangular.

What part of speech is deltoid?

deltoid is commonly used as adjective, noun.