Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quadrangular bone at the back of the tarsus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
talipes calcaneus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The large
bone making up theheel of the humanfoot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vikings coach Brad Childress said Monday an MRI on Favre's foot revealed the fracture and an "avulsion" fracture in the calcaneus, which is the heel bone.
Brett Favre Injured: Fractured Ankle Could End Consecutive Games Streak The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The calcaneus is the largest of the tarsal bones.
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Childress said Monday the MRI revealed a fracture and an "avulsion" fracture in the calcaneus, which is the heel bone.
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Childress said Monday the MRI revealed a fracture and an "avulsion" fracture in the calcaneus, which is the heel bone.
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An MRI revealed that Favre has an evulsion fracture, in which the ligament pulls a piece of bone from the bone, of the calcaneus (heel bone) and a stress fracture.
Brad Childress: Brett Favre has two fractures in his ankle Cindy Boren 2010
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It is an inflammation of the connective tissue extending from the calcaneus, or heel bone, to the metatarsals at the ball of your foot.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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In severe cases, you can get a calcaneus heel spur that makes things worse.
Archive 2009-06-01 Steve Perry 2009
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It is an inflammation of the connective tissue extending from the calcaneus, or heel bone, to the metatarsals at the ball of your foot.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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I fractured my calcaneus right there in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in front of all those writers at the party and now I have to live with that, every day, that pain in my left heel, telling me, “Sean, you did this — every bit of this — to yourself.”
Someone Emailed Me Last Night and Asked if I Would Write About Nachos. 2008
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I fractured my calcaneus right there in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in front of all those writers at the party and now I have to live with that, every day, that pain in my left heel, telling me, “Sean, you did this — every bit of this — to yourself.”
Someone Emailed Me Last Night and Asked if I Would Write About Nachos. 2008
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