rotator cuff

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   a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move

   Broaderstructure

   Part ofshoulder

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Questions about rotator cuff

What does rotator cuff mean?

rotator cuff means "a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move".

Is rotator cuff a common word?

rotator cuff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.