FOREARM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forearm mean? 

• FOREARM (noun)
  The noun FOREARM has 1 sense:

1. the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist

  Familiarity information: FOREARM used as a noun is very rare.

• FOREARM (verb)
  The verb FOREARM has 1 sense:

1. arm in advance of a confrontation

  Familiarity information: FOREARM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREARM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("forearm" is a kind of...):

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Meronyms (parts of "forearm"):

anconeous muscle; musculus anconeus (the muscle that extends the forearm and abducts the ulna in pronation of the wrist)

accessory cephalic vein; vena cephalica accessoria (a vein that passes along the radial edge of the forearm and joins the cephalic vein near the elbow)

basilic vein; vena basilica (a vein that drains the back of the hand and forearm and empties into the axillary vein)

radial vein; vena radialis (superficial veins ascending the radial side of the forearm; combines with the ulnar veins to form the brachial vein)

ulnar vein; vena ulnaris (any of several veins of the forearm)

radius (the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm)

elbow bone; ulna (the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm)

Holonyms ("forearm" is a part of...):

arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)

• FOREARM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arm in advance of a confrontation

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "forearm" is one way to...):

arm; build up; fortify; gird (prepare oneself for a military confrontation)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples 

The distance around an individual's forearm.

(Forearm Circumference, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

There were twenty who loosed shafts at him, and when the man was afterwards slain it was found that he had taken eighteen through his forearm.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A type of hinge joint located between the forearm and upper arm.

(Elbow Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): he left kidney of a person, a dog's right from paw, a patch of skin on a person's left forearm

(Biologic Entity Part, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

One of two deep veins (anterior or posterior) that run parallel to their corresponding artery in the forearm to drain the wrist and hand.

(Interosseous Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A tuberculin skin test where a standard dose of 5 Tuberculin units of purified protein derivative is injected under the skin of the inner surface of the forearm.

(Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test, NCI Thesaurus)

A needle is used to insert the catheter into a vein, usually in the back of the hand or in the forearm.

(Peripheral venous catheter, NCI Dictionary)

One of the bones that comprise the forearm.

(Murine Ulna, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the anterior interosseous artery in the forearm that runs parallel to the median nerve and supplies the palm of the hand.

(Median Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A skeletal muscle of the forearm originating from the posterior surfaces of the ulna and radius and the interosseous membrane.

(Abductor Pollicis Longus, NCI Thesaurus)