rotator cuff
noun
: a supporting and strengthening structure of the shoulder joint that is made up of the capsule of the shoulder joint blended with tendons and muscles as they pass to the capsule or across it to insert on the head of the humerus
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Jones, 64, landed on some pipes and tore the rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
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Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
Yamamoto was placed on the injured list with a strained rotator cuff.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
Nestor Cortes is reporting no ill effects with his rotator cuff which shut him down in August last year, while Carlos Rodon has reportedly already been clocking 97 mph as opposed to 92-93 this time last year at the outset of camp.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2024
Spence might be in the rotation for a while, with starters Paul Blackburn (right foot stress reaction), Joe Boyle (lower back strain), Ross Stripling (right elbow flexor strain), Alex Wood (rotator cuff tendinitis), and Ken Waldichuk (Tommy John surgery) all on the injured list.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
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Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
Yamamoto was placed on the injured list with a strained rotator cuff.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
Nestor Cortes is reporting no ill effects with his rotator cuff which shut him down in August last year, while Carlos Rodon has reportedly already been clocking 97 mph as opposed to 92-93 this time last year at the outset of camp.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2024
Spence might be in the rotation for a while, with starters Paul Blackburn (right foot stress reaction), Joe Boyle (lower back strain), Ross Stripling (right elbow flexor strain), Alex Wood (rotator cuff tendinitis), and Ken Waldichuk (Tommy John surgery) all on the injured list.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
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rotator cuff
noun
: a supporting and strengthening structure of the shoulder joint that is made up of part of its capsule blended with tendons of the subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, and teres minor muscles as they pass to the capsule or across it to insert on the humerus
called also musculotendinous cuff
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