[Gr. ἄμβη, Ion. for ἄμβων a projecting lip or edge.] 1. Surg. (see quot.)
1711. in Lond. Gaz., mmmmdccclviii/4. This [reduction of fractures] is not effected either by the Ambe or Comander.
1743. Zollman, in Phil. Trans., XLII. 387. Among the Machines which Art has invented for the performing of it, the Ambe of Hippocrates is one of the most antient and most famous.
1811. Hooper, Med. Dict., Ambe, an old chirurgical machine for reducing dislocations of the shoulder, and so called, because its extremity projects like the prominence of a rock.
2. Anat. ‘A superficial crest or eminence of a bone.’ Syd. Soc. Lex., 1879.
