亚洲网紅露点

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malleolus

[ muh-lee-uh-luhs ]

noun

Anatomy.
plural malleoli
  1. the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.


malleolus

/ 尘蓹藞濒颈藧蓹濒蓹蝉 /

noun

  1. either of two rounded bony projections of the tibia and fibula on the sides of each ankle joint
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 尘补濒藞濒别辞濒补谤, adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of malleolus1

1685鈥95; < Latin: small hammer, mallet, equivalent to malle ( us ) hammer + -olus -ole 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of malleolus1

C17: diminutive of Latin malleus hammer
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Example Sentences

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Pain above right external malleolus.

From

Uncus, ung鈥瞜us, n. a hook or claw, or a hook-like process: the head of the malleolus or lateral tooth of the mastax of a wheel-animalcule:鈥攑l.

From

Malleolus, ma-l膿鈥才-lus, n. a bony protuberance on either side of the ankle.鈥攁dj.

From

The inferior extremity, less thick, is prolonged internally by a prominence which corresponds to the internal malleolus of man.

From

Its inferior extremity, when it exists鈥攊t is this which disappears in animals which have the fibula incompletely developed鈥攆orms a prominence which, placed on the external surface of the inferior extremity of the tibia, articulates with the astragalus, and recalls the external malleolus of man.

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