Talk:elbow bone

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Rfv-sense. ulna. I'm just not sure how either ordinary people or medical professionals use "elbow bone", if and when they use it. Only one use in COCA, about medical procedure on an athlete. The main possibilities are that they refer to the main forearm bone, the ulna; the end of the ulna, the olecranon; the end of the humerus; or the elbow joint. If they say elbow bones, do they refer to many "ulnas"/"ulnae" or do they mean all the bones that come together in the vicinity of the elbow joint? DCDuring TALK 15:53, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

The entry was created with the not-quite-correct sense of “ulna”; you recognized that the more correct sense is “olecranon”; I think you could simply have corrected the entry, rather than adding the correct sense and RFV-ing the existing one. I mean, nothing wrong with the RFV, it just doesn't seem totally necessary. WT:BOLD, and all. —Ruakh_TALK 18:50, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Conflicting info from references stopped me in my tracks. DCDuring TALK 18:56, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Both senses of singular are in use. I am removing tag. Most references and uses favor that definition. DCDuring TALK 19:18, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply