Word: humerus
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...body, yet it's very strong. The design feature that enables these feats is the cuff - three flat tendons that blend together like a thick leathery hood covering a bald man's head - the head in this case being the smooth cartilage-covered ball at the top of the humerus or arm bone. The cuff's unique tendons apply muscular forces which stabilize and greatly strengthen the movement of your arm. (Remember tendons are the attachments of muscles to bone - they pull...
...Crimson has been without the star sophomore attackman all season. Cohen was sidelined in the preseason with pneumonia. Just as he was about to return to practice, Cohen broke his right humerus playing basketball—diagnosed at the time as a potentially season-ending injury...
Copple suffered a “subluxation” or partial dislocation of his left shoulder, in which the humerus slips out of the shoulder socket...
...Whoa. This is a hominid," crowed Anthropologist Tim White when he spotted the first bone fragment, a portion of an elbow, lying on a layer of sand. Looking down, Expedition Leader Donald Johanson shouted, "There's part of a humerus right next to it!" That July 1986 find in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge marked the beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis...
...problem, according to Trainer Dick Emerson, had a lot to do with the shoulder pads Harvard wore. "90 percent of the shoulder injuries were sprains [of a ligament between the humerus and the collarbone]," Emerson says. "Those usually result from falling on your shoulder or your shoulder hitting the boards...