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  • noun Plural form of ulna.

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Examples

  • Whereas a normal lower arm is composed of two bones, a radius and an ulna, this lower arm has two ulnae and no radius.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Whereas a normal lower arm is composed of two bones, a radius and an ulna, this lower arm has two ulnae and no radius.

    Fingertips, part 10+x Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • There were pieces of bone on a workbench: ribs, a radius and ulnae, sections of skull.

    The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

  • The meat-bearing parts of the fore - and hind legs (represented by scapulae, humeri, radii, ulnae, pelves, femora and tibiae) and the axial skeleton (vertebrae and ribs) were less frequently present.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 2 2003

  • Researchers from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Henan Province in Zhengzhou found the flutes, crafted from the hollow ulnae (wing bones) of red-crowned crane, among fragments of 30 others at the Neolithic (ca. 8000-2000 B.C.) site of Jiahu in central Henan Province.

    Oldest Musical Instruments Still Play a Tune 1999

  • The ulnae possess a lateral groove along the dorso-lateral surface of the diaphysis, which is lacking in NMVP 186076 and

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott A. Hocknull et al. 2009

  • The largest of these are presumably humeri, and there may be remnants of ulnae and radii as well.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • These ratios reflect the narrow and gracile diaphysis of the ulnae, compared to the massively expanded proximal epiphyses, where the lateral and medial processes are extended into narrow crests from the main shaft.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott A. Hocknull et al. 2009

  • And here were bones: femurs, ulnae, sacra, ribs, scapulae; he was standing in "a veritable graveyard.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • However, this may be accentuated by plastic deformation of the distal end in UMNH VP 18040 that is similar to the distortion of this region observed in Portions of both ulnae, including the complete left ulna, are preserved (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010

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