Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, situated in front of the cubitus or forearm.

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  • adjective anatomy Pertaining to, or situated in the anterior part of the elbow (cubitus)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the region of the arm in front of the elbow

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Examples

  • I know what you mean about the nerves in my wrists and antecubital space... the minute a blood tech gets near me my veins go into hiding long-term!

    Like a sieve, only not so much Kay Olson 2007

  • A slim PICC disappears into me just below the antecubital fossa, and my whole lower arm is wrapped in a white mesh glove that looks almost like lace, and would have been cool back in 1983, when I was negative two.

    The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007

  • “They put in a pik line,” he would explain, “which is a special type of IV that went into the antecubital vein the vein on the inner side of the arm, at the elbow in order to give me intravenous feeding.”

    Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

  • Georgia handed Rae the IV cathe er, and deftly Rae plunged the tip of the cathe er into Patty's right antecubital vein.

    The Silent Cradle Cuthbert, Margaret 1998

  • The antecubital vein swelled into view, bruised by all the earlier venipunctures.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • The antecubital vein swelled into view, bruised by all the earlier venipunctures.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • The antecubital vein swelled into view, bruised by all the earlier venipunctures.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • “The inside of the arm above the antecubital fossa.”

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • To say that the inner aspect is the side where the arm folds, and the antecubital fossa, therefore, is where the arm folds?

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • “The inside of the arm above the antecubital fossa.”

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

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