Talk:forearm bone

Deletion debate

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forearm (attributive) + bone. Compare leg bone, although hip bone and shoulder bone do exist. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't know medicine, and perhaps to someone trained in that field hip bone and shoulder bone are SoP, but to me (and, I suspect, most laymen), they're not, since hip and shoulder are joints, not bones, and hip/shoulder bone does not merely mean "any bone that adjoins the hip/shoulder". But delete forearm bone as SoP.​—msh210℠ 17:05, 19 August 2009 (UTC) 21:40, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

We also have:

• in the head: frontal bone, parietal bone, temporal bone, occipital bone, sphenoid bone, ethmoid bone, zygomatic bone, malar bone, hyoid bone, vomer bone, nasal bone, turbinate bone, lacrimal bone, palatine bone, mastoid bone, otic bone, stirrup bone, alveolar bone, Wormian bone
• in the extremities: capitate bone, heel bone, cuboid bone, hamate bone, tarsal bone, carpal bone, cuneiform bone, intermediate cuneiform bone, lateral cuneiform bone, medial cuneiform bone, navicular bone, scaphoid bone, innominate bone, pisiform bone, lunate bone, elbow bone, metacarpal bone, calf bone, long bone
• other: sesamoid bone, epipubic bone, pneumatic bone,

A few of these are clear deletes IMO (calf bone, e.g.).​—msh210℠ 17:16, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

If fibula is actually also called calf bone (which it is according to dictionary.com) it should be kept. How else would we poor non-natives know which of the two bones of the lower leg it is? --Hekaheka 19:17, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

True. Actually, I didn't realize we have two bones down there, which is why I said to delete calf bone. Again, though, that entry has not had deletion requested.​—msh210℠ 20:38, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Actually I think most of the above list should be kept. Of the forearm bone itself I'm not so sure. If the use of the term is commonplace, it might be considered a set phrase referring to both ulna and radius, and neither of them specifically. --Hekaheka 19:38, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

elbow bone might merit inclusion due to multiple senses, one of which only refers to a part of a bone. If that is typical, these might need to be addressed one at a time, especially the ones that use a common word (like "long", "calf", nasal") before "bone". DCDuring TALK 18:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

I do think they need to be addressed singly, and did not mean to imply otherwise. The only one we're discussing so far, AFAICT, is forearm bone (and, below, its plural).​—msh210℠ 18:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Kept for no consensus. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:36, 22 March 2010 (UTC)