elbow

     

The elbow-joint is a ginglymus or hinge joint. Three bones form the elbow joint: the humerus of the upper arm, an the paired radius and ulna of the forearm.

Trivia about elbow

  • This joint connects your upper arm to your forearm
  • Noah measured the ark in cubits of about 20 inches, or the distance from your middle finger to this joint
  • To thrust someone aside with an arm
  • Also a body part, in plumbing it's the fitting used to connect the joints of 2 pipes that meet at an angle
  • "Never rub your eye but with" this body part (it's sort of impossible anyway)
  • Of Elbow, Knee, or Blister, the one who's a simple constable in "Measure For Measure"
  • Emily Post says a man may put his hand under this part of a woman only when helping her into a car or upstairs
  • Hard physical work is made easier when you apply this type of "grease"
  • Joint at which the humerus, radius & ulna meet
  • The minute you walked in the joint, you knew the name of this body part was from the old English "elnboga"
  • This body part sometimes precedes "macaroni" in the name of a pasta
  • This comical constable in "Measure for Measure" shares a name with a body part
  • At this joint the capitulum's rounded head articulates with the head of the radius