miner's elbow

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English

Noun

miner's elbow (usually uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A swelling on the back of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon.
    Coordinate terms: golfer's elbow, nursemaid's elbow; tennis elbow

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for miner's elbow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)