noun
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A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.
adjective
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Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna.
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Of or pertaining to the cubitus and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
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Measured in cubits.
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Of the length of a cubit.
Examples of cubital in a Sentence
This, the stretcher of the cubital quills, is a very interesting muscle.
The ulna is curved and rather stout; it articulates with both carpal bones; the cubital quills often cause rugosities on its dorsal surface.
Arising as a long tendon from the sterno-scapular ligament, it passes the axilla by means of a fibrous pulley, accompanies the axillary vessels and nerves along the humerus, and is inserted by a few fleshy fibres on the base of the last two or three cubital quills.
The main median nervure, and usually also the sub-costal become united with the radial, while the branches of radial, median and cubital nervures pursuing a transverse or recurrent course across the wing, divide its area into a number of areolets or " cells," that are of importance in classification.