Associations to the word «Olecranon»

Wiktionary

OLECRANON, noun. (anatomy) The bony process at the top of the ulna forming the point of the elbow.

Dictionary definition

OLECRANON, noun. Process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope