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 anklebone is a match for a modern human’s.

From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2012

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

On the mountain itself, the most common injuries used to be simple fractures of the lateral malleolus, or anklebone, and low-level spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula.

From Time Magazine Archive

And by the time Aladdin had done grimacing over a banged shin, Margaret would have a bruised anklebone to cry about.

From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur