Usually means: Heel bone in human foot.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. calcaneus: Merriam-Webster
  2. calcaneus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calcaneus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. calcaneus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. calcaneus: Vocabulary.com
  6. calcaneus: Wordnik
  7. Calcaneus, Calcaneus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. calcaneus: Wiktionary
  9. calcaneus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. calcaneus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. calcaneus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. calcaneus: Dictionary.com
  13. Calcaneus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. calcaneus: Rhymezone
  15. calcaneus: FreeDictionary.org
  16. calcaneus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. calcaneus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calcaneus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. calcaneus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Calcaneus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Calcaneus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. calcaneus: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  8. calcaneus: Medical dictionary
  9. Calcaneus: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (calcaneus)

▸ noun:  The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone.

Similar:
heelbone, os tarsi fibulare, calcaneous, calcaneum, cuboid, lateral cuneiform bone, cuneiform bone, coronary, intermediate cuneiform bone, clavus, more...

Opposite:
dorsum, anterior, front

Types:
heel bone, talus, cuboid, navicular, lateral cuneiform, medial cuneiform, more...

Phrases:
tendo calcaneus, talipes calcaneus, calcaneus bone, tuber calcaneus tuber calcis, tuber calcis tuber calcaneus, more...

Adjectives:
tendo, posterior, right, left, anterior, lateral, paralytic, congenital, human, medial, distal

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Similar:
heelbone, os tarsi fibulare, calcaneous, calcaneum, cuboid, lateral cuneiform bone, cuneiform bone, coronary, intermediate cuneiform bone, clavus, more...

Opposite:
dorsum, anterior, front

Types:
heel bone, talus, cuboid, navicular, lateral cuneiform, medial cuneiform, more...

Phrases:
tendo calcaneus, talipes calcaneus, calcaneus bone, tuber calcaneus tuber calcis, tuber calcis tuber calcaneus, more...

Adjectives:
tendo, posterior, right, left, anterior, lateral, paralytic, congenital, human, medial, distal



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