n 1  :  a human upper limb : esp  :  the part between the shoulder and the wrist  2 a  :  the forelimb of a vertebrate other than a human being  b  :  a limb of an invertebrate animal  c  :  any of the usu. two parts of a chromosome lateral to the centromere .
 
 
 
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