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upper arm

Noun

Meaning

upper arm (plural upper arms)

(anatomy) The section of an arm from the elbow to the shoulder.

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Allow your head and heart to melt between your upper arm bones to stretch and release your back, as well as lengthen out your hamstrings. Source: Internet

A cybernetic hand gives amputees a sense of touch by transmitting electrical impulses to electrodes surgically implanted on nerves in the upper arm. Source: Internet

Bowlers are judged to have an illegal action if there is more than a 15-degree straightening of the elbow joint from upper arm horizontal to ball release. Source: Internet

Image of veins from Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus This process was later performed on the human body (in the image on the right): the physician tied a tight ligature onto the upper arm of a person. Source: Internet

It was the buck knife blade slicing into her upper arm that stopped her, the sudden sear of the stab. Source: Internet

The bones of the stylopodium (upper arm or thigh bone) and zygopodiums (tibia and fibula) are usually elongated. Source: Internet

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