Anatom3DRight fourth metatarsal bone
Os metatarsi IV dextrum · Pravá čtvrtá nártní kost
Skeleton
Looks like
The long bone behind the fourth toe, slightly mobile at its base.
What it does
Lets the outer forefoot adapt to uneven ground.
Keeping it well
Stress fractures and injuries from dropped objects happen here; most heal in a stiff shoe.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Bunion & foot deformity
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Morton's neuroma
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency