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Word: ulna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember to watch for dropped flies, pop-ups, surprisingly bad performances by superstars, a bad throw from right field by Dwight Evans, and very probably a sprained ankle--or more likely--a fractured ulna or battered hip or broken tibia. These are the curses which blow in from Cleveland, land of the perverse and mindbending mysterious. These are the kind of things which only happen in conjunction with Cleveland...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: When Cleveland Comes to Zion | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

...transmitted to the arm, where it raises havoc-for reasons that doctors, despite long experience with tennis-elbow victims, still do not fully understand. Most of the pain seems to be caused by inflammation of the ligaments that join the two bones of the forearm-the radius and ulna-to the two spurs, or epicondyles, on the end of the humerus, or upper arm bone (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hacker's Hazard | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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