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shoulder

part of the body; movable joint between arm and upper body
Class type of: subdivision of pectoral girdle, particular anatomical entity Q16363

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
class of anatomical entity
Subclass of
subdivision of pectoral girdle, particular anatomical entity
Part of
upper extremity[4]
Connects with
pectoral girdle, neck[15][16]
Described by source
Gray's Anatomy (20th edition), Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Different from
shoulder, upper arm[13][14]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C25203[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en shoulder ar كتف cs rameno da skulder de Schulter el ώμος es hombro fa شانه fi olkapää fr épaule he כתף hi कंधा hu váll id bahu it spalla it cingolo scapolare it cingolo toracico ja 肩 ko 어깨 nl schouder
🔖 Identifiers · 41
OpenAlex ID
C2911091303, C2777325788
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Photo of male right shoulder, combined with an anatomical drawing from Leonardo da Vinci.jpg ↗
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/1645
BabelNet ID
00006141n
Biblissima authority ID
Neil Bush
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/shoulder
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
epaule
Foundational Model of Anatomy ID
25202
Freebase ID
/m/01ssh5
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
espatla
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0272027, 0180977
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3145344
Show all 41 identifiers +29
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
plecho-036c12
ICD-11 ID (Foundation)
2127070735
ICD-11 ID (MMS)
XA2ND5
Iconclass notation
31A2224
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
shoulder
KBpedia ID
Shoulder
Lex ID
skulder
MeSH descriptor ID
D012782
MeSH tree code
A01.378.800.750
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2777325788
Museum-digital tag ID
18881
NDL Authority ID
00565148
NL CR AUT ID
ph172845
National Library of Latvia ID
000327454
Quora topic ID
Shoulders-anatomy
SVKKL authority ID
0213243-ramena
TA2 ID
139
TA98 Latin term
cingulum membri superioris
Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID
A01.1.00.020
Topic's main category
Category:Shoulder
Treccani ID
spalla
UBERON ID
0001467
UMLS CUI
C0037004
VerbaAlpina ID
C798
Vikidia article ID
en:shoulder, fr:Épaule
WikiKids ID
Schouder
WordLift URL
data.medicalrecords.com
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
05556473-n
YSO ID
12996, 12995
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Source
ndl_authorities
Edition
20261001 · as of 2026-10-01 · newer edition 20261103 landed
Licence
pdl-1.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
← Depicts 12
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Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
← Does not have part 3
arm, upper arm, free upper limb
Connects with 2
neck, pectoral girdle
← Connects with 2
thorax, arm
← Worn on 2
shoulder pads, mankini
Belongs to 1
upper extremity
Different from 1
upper arm
Has these parts 1
shoulder joint
Named after 1
shoulder mark
Part of 1
upper extremity
Topic's main category 1
Category:Shoulder
← Anatomical location 1
shoulder problem
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Shoulder
← Different from 1
upper arm
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Summary

shoulder is a class of anatomical entity[1]. shoulder is a type of subdivision of pectoral girdle[2] and particular anatomical entity[3].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for shoulder include shoulder mark[17].

Why It Matters

Entities named for shoulder include shoulder mark[17].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → C798
    "Created claim: VerbaAlpina ID: C798, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Neil Bush
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q320829, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0213243-ramena
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0213243-ramena, batch #259493"
  4. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → upper extremity
    Different from → shoulder, upper arm
    Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) → 3145344
    Subclass of → subdivision of pectoral girdle, particular anatomical entity
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "YSO ID, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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