Musculoskeletal etymology: What's in a name?
Etymology of leg bones (a) animal tibiae were used as flutes by early man (b) brooch-shaped fibula. The tarsal (tarsus means ankle) bones have an interesting etymology too.The tetrahedral anklebones or 'knucklebones' of animals like horse, goat, sheep etc. were used as dice (used for playing games) by the Romans (Fig. 3a), and the anklebone was thus named as 'talus' (tallux …
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