human elbow

Questions about human elbow

What does human elbow mean?

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

What is another word for human elbow?

Close synonyms include elbow, elbow joint, 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 human elbow a common word?

human elbow 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.