ankle

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Where the ankle is the seat of the trouble, a strip is firmly applied to the back of the foot, beginning just behind the toes, and is brought around the ankle and carried up on to the calf of the leg -- thus partially winding the plaster around the leg.

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  1. noun The joint formed by the articulation of the lower leg bones with the talus. The ankle connects the foot with the leg.
  2. noun The slender section of the leg immediately above the foot.

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  • She leaned forward, instinctively placing her hand on his arm for balance, to see for herself that her ankle was all right. —  Garwood, Julie - The Prize
  • You may leave for the States as soon as your ankle is healed Demetrios No. —  HPre2243_-_Pregnant_Mistress,_The_-_Marton,_Sandra.htm
  • We need not go all that far Oh, the ankle is all right. —  The Death-Cap Dancers - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 59: 1981
  • I was betting the ankle was a small gun, but the pocket could have been a lot of things, just not a gun. —  BloodNoir
  • The pain in her ankle was astonishing but Lydia forced her way to the surface. —  The Empty Chair
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  1. Middle English ancle, ankel, partly from Old English anclēow and partly of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. (a) Also written ancle, from Middle English ankle, ancle, ankel, ankil, ankyl (a corresponding Anglo-Saxon form not recorded) = OFries. ankel = Dutch enkel = Old High German anchal, enchil, masculine, anchala, enchila, feminine, Middle High German G. enkel = Icelandic ökkla, ökli = Swedish Danish ankel; (b) also with added termination English dial. anclef, ancliff, ancley, from Middle English anclee, anclowe, from Anglo-Saxon ancleow, oncleow, ancleó = OFries. onklef = Old Dutch aenklauwe, Dutch anklaauw, enklaauw = Old High German anchlao (rare) (the termination being due, perhaps, to a simulation of Anglo-Saxon cleó, usually clawu = OFries. klere = Dutch klaauw, a claw); with formative -l, -el, from a simple base preserved in Old High German encha, einka, leg, ankle, Middle High German anke, ankle (later F. hanche, English haunch, q. v.); prob. related to L. angulus, an angle, and Greek ἀγκύλος, bent: see angle, angle, and ankylose.
 

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