(The ulna is the bone that reaches the wrist on the pinkie side.). From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
The medial and lateral heads originate on the upper-arm bone and attach on the ulna, which is one of the forearm bones. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
For four or five days I thought over the history of his injury and the resulting inability to rotate the radius around the ulna -- in other words, to turn his hand over. From Wordnik.com. [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference
"The fracture of the ulna is a simple one," said the spokesman, "and will become all right in the ordinary course of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective] Reference
Thus the radius may roll over and even cross the ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
A curved eminence at the upper and back part of the ulna. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The forearm contains two long bones, the ulna and the radius. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
This bone radiates or turns on the ulna, carrying the hand with it. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The end of the ulna, one of the two bones in the lower arm, was exposed. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: Umoja's Surgery] Reference
Silenorum, childish, pueri instar bimuli, tremula patris dormientis in ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
While snorkeling at Cinnamon Bay on St. John island I found an ulna arm bone. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
And no, it's not just a condyle of the ulna peeking through from the other side. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
It took only a quick feel to tell me that there was a fracture of radius and ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Every living thing]
The head of the ulna cracked like glass, and Boris howled at the excruciating agony. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Its front fins had a humerus, ulna and radius and breathed out of the top of its head. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Major evolutionary discovery.] Reference
But only the ulna, which goes from the little finger side of the wrist up to the elbow. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
It didn't help that she was still recovering from hairline fractures to her right ulna and radius. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Anniversary] Reference
I actually have had multiple surgeries for cubital tunnel syndrome to feel an entrapped ulna nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Long-Term Talking Can Cause “Mobile Phone Elbow” | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Fractures of the ulna in the horse are not common in spite of the exposed position of the olecranon. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The condyles of the humerus articulate with the glenoid cavities of the radius and a portion of the ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Long bones are the type found in the extremities, like the femur or thighbone in the leg or ulna in the arm. From Wordnik.com. [We���re Born With 270 Bones. As Adults We Have 206] Reference
Figure 8 shows the deformity from an old fracture of the ulna (one of the bones of the forearm) very clearly. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
But this weekend as you watch your dog gnaw on an ulna, think of his unhappiness, waiting for a jury verdict. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Examples of condyloid joints are found at the knuckles and where the wrist bones articulate with the radius and ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Through the half-closed door he could see the ulna, and a few burnt fragments of cloth adhered to a thread of muscle. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
It was discovered that the infection had spread to my right radius and ulna so here too a simple substitution was made. From Wordnik.com. [Man Made] Reference
It was by then five days since Gordon Quint had cracked my ulna, and the twinges had become less acute and less frequent. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
The position assumed by a horse suffering from a transverse fracture of the ulna, is similar to that in radial paralysis. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Along with a fractured left ulna and right tibia in 2002 and shoulder problems as a freshman, durability issues are sure to arise. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
Turn the forearm over with the palm down, and the head of the ulna can be plainly felt and seen projecting at the back of the wrist. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
She was kneeling beside a man, applying a tourniquet to a compound fracture of his ulna, when car tires screeched dangerously close. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
"According to his chart, he had a simple fracture of his right humerus and a hairline fracture of the ulna, same arm, " said Dr. Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The 5th Horseman]
The ulna, so called because it forms the elbow, is the longer and larger bone of the forearm, and is on the same side as the little finger. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Fig. 38, 1, represents a soft-nosed Lee-Metford removed from just below the lesser sigmoid cavity of the ulna, after it had perforated the elbow-joint. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Having released the chest, skin all away from the back and shoulder; the fore-arm now appears, showing the articulation of the humerus with the radius and ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
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