[f. FORE- pref. + ARM sb.] The part of the arm between the elbow and the wrist; sometimes the whole arm below the elbow. Also, the corresponding part in the forelegs of quadrupeds, or in the wings of birds.
1740. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg., 164. I made use of an animated Digestive, and a Suppuration being very abundant at first, exceedingly reduced the Tumour upon the Point of the Shoulder; but the Swelling upon the Arm and Fore-Arm increased.
1741. Monro, Anat. Bones (ed. 3), 251. The Fore-arm consists of two long Bones, the Ulna and Radius.
1835–6. R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, I. 294/2. Birds in general possess two flexors and one extensor of the fore-arm, analogous to those which are found in the mammalia.
1843. Bethune, Sc. Fireside Stor., 128. His shirt sleeves folded upward and inward, in such a manner as to leave the whole of the fore-arm bare.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxix. 388. She tore down by single efforts of her forearms the barrels of frozen beef which made the triple walls of the storehouse.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., vi. 283. There are other indications of change in the dentition, and in the bones of the forearm and leg, pointing in the same direction.
