1891 at Miner Miner's elbow, a chronic enlargement and thickening of the bursa over the olecranon process of the elbow produced by the semirecumbent position in which a miner works in low-roofed tunnels.
1912 J. G. Adami & J. McCrae xii. 678 ‘Housemaid's knee’, ‘miner's elbow’, and ‘weaver's bottom’ are all well-known forms of bursitis.