Mr. Dev was teaching about the skeletal system to his class in the school where he worked. However, all his efforts to make the class interested in the topic that he was teaching was seemingly in vain. The students were finding the topic extremely mundane. Most of them, were dosing. Harsh was one of such students.
Being in the third row, the Dev could clearly see him. He started approaching Harsh and called out his name loudly. Harsh woke up with a jerk from his stupor as his elbow slipped on the desk. He cried out loud as an excruciating pain enveloped his arm. It was just too much for him to bear. Seeing this Mr. Dev quickly reached out to him and rubbed his elbows to ease the pain. He winked and said “Child, you have hit your funny bone”.
Suddenly, everyone was all ears to what Dev was saying. The boring class had turned into an interesting one. Dev was more than happy to see this and explained further.
He went on to explain. “Everyone would have experienced this tingling pain when we hit our elbow inadvertently somewhere,” he said. “You all must have heard the term funny bone”, he added. Everyone in the class nodded since somewhere or the other, each one had experienced this. Dev said, “Well, the pain isn’t funny as the name of the bone. The word ‘Funny bone’ itself is a misnomer. The funny bone is not a bone at all.” “Do you know what it is?” he asked. There was a pin-drop silence in the class. No one really was aware of this. Dev went on. “The funny bone is not a bone, but a nerve called the Ulnar nerve. The ulnar nerve runs near the Ulna bone. This nerve runs from the back of the arm and around the inner part of the elbow and into the forearm.
This name is based on the sound resemblance between the name of the bone of the upper arm, the "Humerus" and the word "humorous". It is thought to be an anatomical pun. Humerus, is one of three bones that make the elbow joint.
The other theory is that it got its nickname because of the funny (or the odd) feeling you experience after you hit it.
When we say that we hit our funny bone, we are actually hitting the nerve against bone and
The compression of the nerves, makes the signals go haywire and results in a cascade of feelings like that of numbness, tingling and pain that shoots through the areas wherever the nerve runs. In human anatomy, this nerve can cause an electric shock-like sensation by striking the medial epicondyle of the humerus.
Now that you know what the Funny bone is, go ahead and find amongst your friends, whether they know that the Funny bone isn’t actually a bone in the first place.
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