Unlike in a healthy shoulder, where the humerus ends in a ball shape and fits into the shoulder blade to form a shoulder, in reverse shoulder replacement surgery the anatomy is reversed.

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When they find a pile of droppings, they shape a small ball and start pushing it away to a safe distance where they can eat it, usually underground.

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It was filled with a waxlike substance, the middle of which had a round indentation, in the shape of a small ball.

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Shape the dough into a ball.

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Besides, you avoid biting into a chunky piece of dough, as can happen when the dumpling is ball-shape.

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