Elbow taken as six handbreadths; three to the elbow and three from the elbow to the shoulder. Another measure was the "cubit" (from "cubital"). This was taken to be the length of a man's arm from the elbow to the end of the middle finger. Though the elbow is similarly adapted for stability through a wide range of pronation-supination and flexion-extension in all apes, there are some minor differences. In arboreal apes such as orangutans, the large forearm muscles originating on the epicondyles of the humerus generate significant transverse forces on the elbow joint. The structure to resist these forces is
Ten More Turnips from the Tip Ten More Turnips from the Tip Ten More Turnips from the Tip is the final studio album by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. It was compiled and released in 2002, two years after Dury's death from colorectal cancer in March 2000. The album came to be after Ian Dury's second wife Sophy found a list of songs under the title 'Ten More Turnips from the Tip' among her husband's papers. The list, described as 'almost like a will' by Blockheads keyboardist Mick Gallagher in "Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song", included four tracks recorded at RAK Studios in