elbow joint

Questions about elbow joint

What does elbow joint mean?

elbow joint means "hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped".

What is another word for elbow joint?

Close synonyms include elbow, human elbow, cubitus, cubital joint, articulatio cubiti. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elbow joint a common word?

elbow joint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.