单词 | ulna |
释义 | ulnan. Anatomy. 1. The large inner bone of the fore-arm, extending from the elbow to the wrist. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > ulna ell-wandc1440 ulna?1541 ell1615 cubit1634 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Gjv The arme..is deuyded in thre great partyes. One is called vlna, the other lytel arme. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Gij Howe many bones are in ye fyrste parte of the great hande that is named vlna or adiutor? 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 184 The other or lower division of the artery descendeth by the ulna . View more context for this quotation 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 296 Ulna,..the greater Bone betwixt the Arm and the Wrist, which is jointed upward with the Shoulder. 1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 275 At the superior Extremity of the Ulna, are two Processes. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Ulna lies on the inside of the Fore-Arm, reaching from the Elbow to the Wrist. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 558 The head of this bone was separated from the surrounding parts, as well as its union with the ulna. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 72 Who conceived that some desperate injury had been done to her Ladyship's radius or ulna. 1881 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 46 86 There was discharge from incisions both at the back and front of the hand and over the lower part of the ulna. 2. The corresponding bone of the foreleg in quadrupeds, and of the wing in birds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > specific bones of foreleg ulna1831 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > specific bone in ulna1831 radius1896 1831 W. Youatt Horse xiii. 236 The long and front bone, called the radius, is nearly straight... The short and hinder bone is called the ulna. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 69/1 In the ruminants generally the ulna is scarcely more than an appendage to the radius. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 57 The fore-arm [in bats] consists of a rudimentary ulna, and a long, curved radius. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 107 The enlarged proximal extremity of the ulna is called the olecranon, or ‘head of the elbow’. 3. Palaeontology and Ichthyology. (See quots.) ΚΠ (a) (b)a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 303/1 Between the lower edge of the spoke-bone and the upper edge of the ulna or cubit.1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 175 Of the two flat bones connecting the fin with the coracoid, the upper one is the ‘ulna’.1839 G. Roberts Dict. Geol. Ulna.., the bone or plate which, together with the radius, forms the first row, after the humerus, in the front paddles of an ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1541 |
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