Resembling a socket; denoting the articular depression of the scapula entering the formation of the shoulder joint
Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates
the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint a deep concavity in the temporal bone at the root of the zygomatic arch that receives the condyle of the mandible