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.

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  • noun The large bone making up the heel of the human foot.

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

[Late Latin calcāneus, heel, from Latin calcāneum, from calx, calc-.]

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From Latin calcāneus ("heel"), rare form of calx ("heel").

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Examples

  • 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

  • —The calcaneus is the largest of the tarsal bones.

    II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus 1918

  • Childress said Monday the MRI revealed a fracture and an "avulsion" fracture in the calcaneus, which is the heel bone.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • Childress said Monday the MRI revealed a fracture and an "avulsion" fracture in the calcaneus, which is the heel bone.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • In severe cases, you can get a calcaneus heel spur that makes things worse.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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