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#85741 11/05/02 05:24 PM
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Spelling bee word. The part of elbow you lean on.


#85742 11/06/02 04:04 PM
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The part of elbow you lean on.

That made me smile, Dr. Bill, because I was in fact leaning pensively on my elbow while reading it!

How do you pronounce it? oh-LECK-ra-non?


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Exactly. The kid's name of it is the "crazy bone" because of peculiar disagreeable sensation
of bumping the ulnar nerve which runs close to it.


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The kid's name of it is the "crazy bone"

Not up here it ain't. We call it the funny bone, which often raises a smile when one first learns of the other "funny" bone in the near vicinity of the olecranon.


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The part of elbow you lean on

There is a depression in the humerus that the ulna hooks into known as the olecranon fossa. In some lighter boned people, usually women, the depression goes all the way through the humerus and is called a pierced olecranon fossa. If you can straighten your arm out past all the way you have a pierced olecranon fossa.


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Dear sjm: Taint funny, it's disagreeable. And what's up about down there?


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Sehr geehrter Herr Doktor Wilhelm, the sensation generated by whacking one's "funny bone" is, as we say up here, "funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha"


#85748 11/07/02 11:08 AM
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I agree with sjm. Here it's called a funny bone. FWIW.


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I do bleeve I've heard both.


#85750 11/07/02 12:12 PM
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Crazy, ain't it, what some hear and others don't. Think the legal system is based on that concept.

Anyway, till this thread, I'd never heard "crazy bone"...

Our bones are funny in S VA.



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