Heel bone

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Topic
| מספר מערכת 987007555544905171
Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
עצם העקב
Name (Latin)
Heel bone
Name (Arabic)
עצם העקב
Other forms of name
Calcaneal bone
Calcaneum
Calcaneus
Os calcis
Os tarsi fibulare
See Also From tracing topical name
Bones
Tarsus
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q13075
Library of congress: sh 85059922
1 / 3
Wikipedia description:

In humans and many other primates, the calcaneus (; from the Latin calcaneus or calcaneum, meaning heel; pl.: calcanei or calcanea) or heel bone is a bone of the tarsus of the foot which constitutes the heel. In some other animals, it is the point of the hock.

Read more on Wikipedia >