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The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

Measurement by the ell; alnage.

Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.

See Alnage and Alnager.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

zy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of va…

The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

One of the carpal bones usually articulating wich the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals.

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

tion to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radiomuscular, radiocarpal.

a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.