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# humerus

«humerus» in Mova's school dictionary: **the long bone in the top part of your arm, between your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (the humerus, humeri)

### meaning for a pupil

The humerus is the long bone in the top part of your arm, between your shoulder and your elbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the skeleton, children label the humerus, radius and ulna in the arm. The «funny bone» is not a bone at all but a nerve near the elbow end of the humerus — a pun on «humorous».

### examples

- The humerus is the bone in your upper arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#x1)
- She broke her humerus falling off the swing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#x2)
- Label the humerus on the skeleton diagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#x3)
- The humerus joins the shoulder at the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#x4)
- Below the elbow are the radius and ulna, not the humerus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#x5)
- Your «funny bone» is a nerve near the humerus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/#x6)

### note

Plural: humeri (rare). Sounds exactly like «humorous» (funny) — a homophone and a famous joke: «Why is the arm bone funny? Because it's the humerus!»

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «humerus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humerus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.