Anatom3DOther tarsal bones
Ossa tarsi · Ostatní zánártní kosti
Skeleton
Looks like
Seven blocks forming the heel and the back half of the foot, the biggest carrying the whole body.
What it does
Shape the arches and transfer weight from the leg to the ground.
Keeping it well
Shoes with support, slow build-up in running; the heel bone breaks in falls from a height.
Its parts
- Right medial cuneiform bone
- Right intermediate cuneiform bone
- Right lateral cuneiform bone
- Right cuboid bone
- Left medial cuneiform bone
- Left intermediate cuneiform bone
- Left lateral cuneiform bone
- Left cuboid bone
- Cuboid bone
- Intermediate cuneiform bone
- Lateral cuneiform bone
- Medial cuneiform bone
- Navicular bone of foot
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- 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