olecranon

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsolecranon process

   Broaderprocess

   Part ofulna

Other forms of olecranon

plural

olecranons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about olecranon

What does olecranon mean?

olecranon means "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".

How many syllables are in olecranon?

olecranon has 4 syllables: o-le-cra-non. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for olecranon?

Close synonyms include olecranon process. 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 olecranon a common word?

olecranon 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.