Definitions for calcaneum

calcaneum cal·ca·ne·um

Spelling: [kal-key-nee-uh m]
IPA: /kælˈkeɪ ni əm/

Calcaneum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in calcaneum (aaccelmnu).

Definitions for calcaneum

noun

  1. calcaneus.

Origin of calcaneum

1745-55; short for Latin (os) calcāneum (bone) of the heel, equivalent to calc- (stem of calx) heel + -āneum, neuter of -āneus; see -an, -eous

Examples for calcaneum

The calcaneum does not articulate with the fibula, except in Macrauchenia.

However, they pass from this region but to be soon continued by a tendon—the tendo-Achillis, which is inserted into the calcaneum.

The astragalus and the calcaneum differ slightly from those of ruminants.

It then winds round the latter in placing itself on its inner side, then on its posterior surface, and reaches the calcaneum.

The calcaneum articulates with the fibula as in Artiodactyles.

The fibula articulates with the calcaneum, and the astragalus is very flat.

It articulates with the fourth and fifth metatarsals and with the calcaneum.

The calcaneum has a large facet for articulation with the fibula, as in Artiodactyla.

It arises from the calcaneum, and passes to the four outer toes.

The two bones of the proximal row are the astragalus and calcaneum.

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