ulnar nerve

1. 1.

   a nerve running along the inner side of the arm and passing near the elbow; supplies intrinsic muscles of the hand and the skin of the medial side of the hand

   Synonymscubital nervenervus ulnaris

   Broadernerve

   Narrowerfunny bone

   Part ofarm

Questions about ulnar nerve

What does ulnar nerve mean?

ulnar nerve means "a nerve running along the inner side of the arm and passing near the elbow; supplies intrinsic muscles of the hand and the skin of the medial side of the hand".

What is another word for ulnar nerve?

Close synonyms include cubital nerve, nervus ulnaris. 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 ulnar nerve a common word?

ulnar nerve 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.