spoke-bone

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English

Noun

spoke-bone (plural spoke-bones)

  1. A bone which has a tubercle where a tendon attaches to the inner and back part of it.
    • 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Difform- Falter, page 426:
      The tendon itself dips down between the flexors of the hand and fingers and the supinators of the fore arm, and is - inserted at the inner and back part of the tubercle of the spoke-bone.

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