Glenoid

Gle″noid (?), a. [Gr. �; � socket of a joint + � form; cf. F. glénoïde.] (Anat.) 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.