Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

shoulder, frozen
See 
frozen shoulder.
shoulder blade
See 
scapula.
shoulder bursitis
See 
bursitis, shoulder.
shoulder joint
The flexible ball-and-socket joint
that is formed by the junction of the humerus and
the scapula. The shoulder joint is cushioned by car-
tilage that covers the face of the glenoid socket and
the head of the humerus. The joint is stabilized by a
ring of fibrous cartilage (labrum) around the gle-
noid socket. Ligaments connect the bones of the
shoulder, and tendons join these bones to sur-
rounding muscles. The biceps tendon attaches the
biceps muscle to the shoulder and helps stabilize
the joint. Four short muscles that originate on the
scapula pass around the shoulder, where their ten-
dons fuse together to form the rotator cuff. See also
shoulder.
show, bloody
See 
bloody show.
Shulman syndrome
See 
eosinophilic fasciitis.
shunt 1
To move a body fluid, such as cere-
brospinal fluid, from one place to another.
2
A
vessel (tube) that is used as a passageway to trans-
port fluid from one body area to another. For exam-
ple, a spinal shunt carries cerebrospinal fluid from
a ventricle in the brain to another area of the body.
A shunt may be placed to relieve pressure due to
hydrocephalus, for example.
shunt, ventriculoatrial
A shunt that is used to
drain fluid from the cerebral ventricle into the right
atrium of the heart.
shunt, ventriculoperitoneal
A shunt that is
used to drain fluid from the cerebral ventricle into
the abdomen.
shock, diabetic
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