elbow joint
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈɛlboʊ dʒɔɪnt/
- The elbow joint allows for bending and straightening of the arm during activities like lifting and typing.
Examples
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For the elbow joint, the angular deceleration (20 percent to 40 percent of the cycle) slopes were not as steep for the Backward-Low position when compared to all the other positions.
Academic text (1992) -
The inside of her right forearm was a mess of torn, bloody cloth and flesh, and a large sliver the size of her little finger protruded from just below her elbow joint.
Fiction book (1992) -
So if you look at the elbow joint, that's where the string pulls in for this big lever, pulls those in.
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Although we don't want to have twist, for instance, across this elbow joint without twisting the motorized axis.
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Crystals love to go to your big toe, but can also affect the hands, knees, elbow joints, ankles and wrists.
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The Backward-Low position peak angular velocities during the pushing phase were lower than for the other Low positions, mainly for the elbow joint.
Academic text (1992) -
Fractures and fracture dislocations involving the elbow joint often produce extensive soft tissue injury in addition to the bony injury.
Academic text (2003) -
In the newborn, nearly the entire elbow joint is cartilaginous (nonossified) and, therefore, not visible on radiographs.
Academic text (2006) -
Arms bent, fists clenched, they're pressing sterilized gauze pads to their inner elbow joints.
Fiction book (2002) -
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): FIGURE 4. Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis about the flexor and extensor areas of the elbow joint.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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1.0
The joint between the upper arm and the forearm
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9.9
The elbow joint that connects the upper arm and forearm
A hinge joint at the elbow between the forearm and the upper arm
A joint that bends the arm where the upper arm meets the forearm, like the elbow
How Mobile
- Specialized
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3.9
- Specialized
2
3.5
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3.0
3
2.3
- Specialized
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2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably derived from combining 'elbow' (the hinge-like part of the arm) with 'joint' (a point where bones articulate). This straightforward compositional noun phrase is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Elbow joint comes from the idea of the elbow as a 'bend' and the joint as the place that connects two parts. Imagine a bent pipe where two pieces meet; that's why elbow joint means the hinge between the upper arm and the forearm.