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  • noun Plural form of ulna.

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Examples

  • It was a mystery: Mountains of skulls with stoved-in crania, ulnas protruding from eye sockets, mandibles cradling shinbones, swirling heaps of sucked, yellow ribs, like the nests of enormous birds—the Minotaur could not help but recognize his own, distinctive handiwork.

    Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

  • For almost an hour, I lay flat on my back with as it turned out thirteen pounds of baby between my spine and my full bladder, as the OB and the tech tried to count femurs and ulnas in a too-small space.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • For almost an hour, I lay flat on my back with as it turned out thirteen pounds of baby between my spine and my full bladder, as the OB and the tech tried to count femurs and ulnas in a too-small space.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • He also had a bone kit with everything from scaplulas, ribs, pelvi to ulnas in a variety of sizes with a whizzo bone grow here surface ready to be bolted into place.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Under the knife. 2009

  • Et volumus quod dicti religiosi teneantur annuatim in perpetuum pro predicta donacione nostra ad perpetuam nostri memoriam vestire quindecim pauperes ad festum Sancti Martini in hieme et eosdem cibare eodem die liberando eorum cuilibet quatuor ulnas panni grossi et lati vel sex ulnas panni stricti et eorum cuilibet unum novum par sotularium de ordine suo.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Running solely on Diet Pepsi fumes after a solid 32 hours awake, the last 5 of which were spent kneading dough ow, my freakin ulnas, I finally grabbed Jason's hunting bucket and headed for the room.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Jay 2006

  • I sat in the car considering the matter of distance and ulnas.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • I sat in the car considering the matter of distance and ulnas.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • Laspia has a pair of cultured arms, no telling how she lost the old ones, and both ulnas have machinery in them.

    Covergent Series Niven, Larry 1979

  • Besides the ulnas, there are pieces of ribs, scapula, tibia, and feet.

    Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894

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