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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ELBOW , in See also:

anatomy, the See also:

ARTICULATION (from Lat. articulare, to divide into joints)

articulation of the humerus, the See also:

bone of the upper See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm, and the ulna and See also:

RADIUS

radius, the bones of the fore-arm (see See also:

JOINTS

JOINTS). The word is thus applied' to things which are like this See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint in shape, such as a See also:

sharp See also:

BEND

bend of a stream or See also:

RIVER

river, an See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle in a See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube, &c. The word is derived from the O. Eng. elnboga, a See also:

COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of eln, the forearm, and boga, a See also:

BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow or bend. This combination is See also:

COMMON

common to many See also:

Teutonic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, cf. Ger. Ellbogen. Eln still survives in the name of a linear measure, the " ell," and is derived from the O. See also:

TENT

Tent. See also:

ALMA

alma, cognate with See also:

LAT

Lat. ulna and Gr. 1.M v 1, the forearm. The use of the arm as a measure of length is illustrated by the uses of ulna, in Latin, cubit, and See also:

FATHOM

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