ulnar
IPA: ˈʌɫnɝ
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow
Examples of "ulnar" in Sentences
- Somebody already got it .... but it's the nerves there, the ulnar nerve, I think.
- "Sometimes it includes the ring finger due to dual innervation with another nerve called the ulnar nerve.
- The MCL, or medial collateral ligament of the elbow, is more commonly called the ulnar collateral ligament to avoid confusion with the knee's MCL.)
- The articular surface for the ulna is called the ulnar notch (sigmoid cavity) of the radius; it is narrow, concave, smooth, and articulates with the head of the ulna.
- When he threw about 20 pitches in his first bullpen session, Meredith felt acute pain in his elbow, which led to a series of tests, which eventually revealed a torn ulnar ligament.
- Loops which flow in the direction of the ulna bone (toward the little finger) are called ulnar loops and those which flow in the direction of the radius bone are called radial loops.
- News broke over the weekend that Johnson has a strained ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow and that he'd seek a second opinion from the famed Alabama-based orthopedic surgeon.
- Strasburg talked a bit about the support he had received, including a letter from a boy in Mechanicsville, Va., who told him he had also suffered a tear of his ulnar collateral ligament.
- Medically known as cubital tunnel syndrome, cell phone elbow is numbness, tingling and pain in the forearm and hand caused by compression of the ulnar nerve, which passes along the bony bump on the inside of the elbow.
- The procedure -- named for the Hall of Fame pitcher who was the first to have the operation in 1974 -- involves using a tendon from elsewhere in the body to replace a damaged elbow ligament called the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL).