where on the body is the deltoid?

Answer 1

Your chest

Answer 2

Hope this helps : from my old Biology Notes!

The deltoideus muscle (also called the deltoids) is made of three main sections called the anterior deltoid, medial deltoid, and posterior deltoid. These three muscle parts have insertions in many different places including the humerus, clavicula, coronoid process, spina scapulae, scapula and acromion. The deltoideus, along with the prominence of the upper end of the humerus bone, produces the rounded contour of the shoulder. It’s rounder and fuller in front than behind, where it presents a flatter form. The insertion of the deltoideus is marked by a depression on the lateral side of the middle arm. The deltoideus is supplied by the fifth and sixth cervical through the axillary nerve.

Special Note: The deltoid is a different type of muscle than some of those found throughout the rest of the body. The delts are made of three pennate muscles making the deltoid a multipennate muscle group. A pennate muscle proportionately moves heavier loads than say a fusiform muscle (such as the biceps brachii), but for shorter distances. When performing lateral raises, for example, the pennate heads of the medial deltoid – very powerful, but with a weak contraction potential – work synergistically with the anterior and posterior heads of the deltoid to bring the arm horizontal.

Answer 3

The deltoid muscle is a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm. In body building and weight training terms..the front deltoid is your anterior, the side is lateral deltoid and the back is your posterior deltoid.

Answer 4

The deltoid is the triangular muscle of the shoulder that forms the rounded flesh of the outer part of the upper arm....

Answer 5

It is a muscle on the top of the arm, above your biceps and triceps. It allows you to raise your arm up, among other things. If you have ever gone to the doctor and received a shot in the arm, it was in your deltoid.

Answer 6

Deltoid is actually your shoulder muscle. Not the part that attaches to your neck (that is the trapezious). The part at the top of your arm.

Answer 7

your shoulder. its called deltoid because its in the shape of a triangle. delta

Answer 8

The top of the shoulder and the upper part of your arm that raises your arm up above your head. It is the muscle that the nurse puts injections in.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

it is the muscle that encompasses the top of the arm. it is a muscle of the shoulder.

Answer 11

Here, have a look for yourself:

http://www.memorial.ecasd.k12.wi.us/Departments/Science/MAllen/Private_Docs/A&P/individual_muscles/deltoid.jpg