anklebone

Example Sentences

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But it was the unicorn, possessor of what Ctesias described as a cinnabar-red anklebone, that remains his most enduring contribution.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

The foot, for instance, combines a heel bone like an ancient ape’s with an anklebone like ’s, according to Malapa team member Bernard Zipfel of the University of the Witwatersrand.

From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012

The anklebone is a match for a modern human’s.

From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012

These mishaps are more serious and take longer to mend than the more common ski injuries, a simple fracture of the anklebone or a low-level spiral fracture of the tibia and fibula.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he put his left foot up on his knee and fell to scratching his anklebone absently with a rusty nail which he got out of his coffin.

From Sketches New and Old, Part 4. by Twain, Mark