Humeral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or located in the region of the humerus or the shoulder.
  • adj. Relating to or being a body part analogous to the humerus.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or near the humerus or shoulder
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the humerus.
  • Of or pertaining to the upper arm or the shoulder.
  • In entomology, pertaining to, or situated on or near, a humerus or anterior corner of the thorax or wing-cover.
  • The exterior angle of a beetle's elytrum, adjoining the pronotum.
  • A bend in the anterior margin of the wing, near the base, found in certain insects.
  • n. Same as amice, 2.
  • n. The second joint, counting from the base, of the pedipalp of a spider. It is generally long and rather slender.
  • n. The clavicle; a large bone of the shoulder-girdle of fishes.
  • Word Usage
    "A key adaptation that helped modern penguins to invade the cold waters of Antarctica within the last 16 million years is the so-called humeral arterial plexus, a network of blood vessels that limits heat loss through the wings."
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