fractured elbow

no... not me. My elbows are perfectly intact.

I was wondering how painful it would be to have a fractured elbow. How difficult would it be to move your arm?

Can an elephant end up with a fractured elbow? Do elephants even have elbows?

Isn't the word elbow kind of a funny word? I understand that el part since when you bend your elbow just right you can make an ell shape, however, where does the bow come in?

Who knew it would have this many definitions?

elbow –noun
1. the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
2. the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
3. something bent like an elbow, as a sharp turn in a road or river, or a piece of pipe bent at an angle.
4. Architecture. crossette.
5. Also called ell, el. a plumbing pipe or pipe connection having a right-angled bend.

–verb (used with object)
6. to push with or as if with the elbow; jostle.
7. to make (one's way) by so pushing.

–verb (used without object)
8. to elbow one's way: He elbowed through the crowd.

—Idioms
9. at one's elbow, within easy reach; nearby: A virtue of the cottage is that the ocean is at your elbow.
10. bend, lift, or crook an elbow, Informal. to drink alcoholic beverages.
11. give the elbow, shove aside, get rid of, or reject.
12. out at the elbows>, a. poorly dressed; shabby. b. impoverished.
Also, out at elbows.
13. rub elbows with, to mingle socially with; associate with: a resort where royalty rubs elbows with the merely rich.
14. up to one's elbows, very busy; engrossed: I am up to my elbows in answering mail. Also, up to the elbows


And of course, in hockey (ice hockey to any non-Canadians), there is elbowing which is a penalty for throwing your elbow into someone.