| 单词 | heel joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheel joint heel joint n. now rare (in a quadruped or bird) a joint homologous to the human ankle joint; a tibiotarsal joint; cf. sense A. 2b. ΚΠ 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon V. xii. 341 It was that of the Abyssinian hunter, who, dreading to front the elephant in his fury, draws his sabre along the animal's heel-joint, and waits until the exertions of the powerful brute burst the injured sinews, and he sinks prostrate under his own weight. 1920 Rabbits & Dollars 44 Then cut away the skin around the hocks, or heel-joint, of the leg by which the [dead] rabbit is suspended. 2012 Condor 114 304/2 The geolocator was tied and glued to a PVC flag on the tibia above the heel joint. < as lemmas |
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