Crossword clues for humerus
humerus
- Bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow
- Organic material covering edges of ear bone
- Arm bone
- Sound of funny bone
- Reporter's funny bone
- Bone of the upper arm
- Bone found in vegetarian spread; without hesitation, Mike leaves
- Bone china defaced? Certain to be returned
- Bit of a buzz comes with the raising of certain skeletal component
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humerus \Hu"me*rus\, n.; pl. Humeri. [L.] (Anat.)
The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb.
The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, "bone of the upper arm," originally (14c.) "shoulder," a misspelled borrowing of Latin umerus "shoulder," from PIE *om(e)so- (cognates: Sanskrit amsah, Greek omos, Old Norse ass, Gothic ams "shoulder").
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The bone of the upper arm.
WordNet
n. bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow
[also: humeri (pl)]
Wikipedia
The humerus (, Plural: humeri) is a long bone in the arm or forelimb that runs from the shoulder to the elbow. It connects the scapula and the two bones of the lower arm, the radius and ulna, and consists of three sections. The upper extremity consists of a rounded head, a narrow neck, and two short processes (tubercles, sometimes called tuberosities). Its body is cylindrical in its upper portion, and more prismatic below. The lower extremity consists of 2 epicondyles, 2 processes ( trochlea & capitulum), and 3 fossae ( radial fossa, coronoid fossa, and olecranon fossa). As well as its true anatomical neck, the constriction below the greater and lesser tubercles of the humerus is referred to as its surgical neck due to its tendency to commonly get fractured, thus often becoming the focus of surgeons.
Usage examples of "humerus".
It then passed anteriorly under the muscles and integument in the axillary space, along the upper third of the humerus, which was extended beyond the head, the external skin not being ruptured.
Westminster Hospital in London, there is preserved the right humerus and scapula, presenting an enormous bulk, which was removed by amputation at the shoulder-joint, for a large lymphosarcoma growing just above the clavicle.
The vibrations of the sound waves passed to her radius and ulna, her humerus, her collar bone, sternum, ribs, vertebrae, and skull, finally reaching the ossicles of her middle ear.
The clavical, humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fibula, the bones of the metacarpus, metatarsus and the phalanges, are classed as long bones.
Further confirmation of the humanlike morphology of the Kanapoi humerus came from anthropologists Henry M.
A slight fleshy protuberance depended from the cicatrix of the humerus and shoulder-joint of the left side, and until the age of ten there was one on the right side.
The right humerus, the right tibia and fibula, a refracture of the left tibia and a new one of the left ankle.
Bradley relates an instance of death following a subluxation of the right humerus backward on the scapula It could not be reduced because the tendon of the biceps lay between the head of the humerus and a piece of the bone which was chipped off.
Another half dozen, including Chalkie who is greatly relieved to be able to lose himself in the middle of a crowd of equally tonsorially challenged colleagues appear to lack the ability to distinguish left from right, buttock from humerus.
Itaque admodum magnis diurnis nocturnisque itineribus confectis contra omnium opinionem ad Ligerem venit vadoque per equites invento pro rei necessitate opportuno, ut brachia modo atque humeri ad sustinenda arma liberi ab aqua esse possent, disposito equitatu qui vim fluminis refringeret, atque hostibus primo aspectu perturbatis, incolumem exercitum traduxit frumentumque in agris et pecoris copiam nactus repleto his rebus exercitu iter in Senones facere instituit.
After his removal it was found that his left humerus was fractured at its lower third, and apparently comminuted.
It is not impossible that the Kromdraai humerus and ulna, like the Sterkfontein femur, belonged to more advanced hominids, perhaps resembling anatomically modern humans.
On examination a subcoracoid dislocation of the head of the humerus was found.
Pieces of truck had smashed her left humerus and cracked her left supraorbital ridge and four ribs, while small rocket fragments had struck her in the left arm and leg.
There were no late-twentieth-century gadgets such the Single Photon Absorptiometer or scintillation detectors to estimate height based on the length of the humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, and fibula - the long bones of the arms and legs.