heel bone

See also: heelbone

English

Noun

heel bone (plural heel bones)

1. The large bone making up the heel of the human foot.

Synonyms

• calcaneus

Translations

heel bone

• Catalan: calcani (ca) m
• Finnish: kantaluu (fi)
• French: calcanéum (fr) m
• Galician: calcaño (gl) m, calcañar (gl)
• Hungarian: sarokcsont (hu)
• Japanese: 踵骨 (ja) (しょうこつ, shōkotsu)
• Korean: 발꿈치뼈 (balkkumchippyeo)
• Malay: tulang tumit, kalkaneus, kalkaneum
• Navajo: akétal
• Ottoman Turkish: ابره (ibre)
• Portuguese: calcâneo m
• Russian: пя́точная кость f (pjátočnaja kostʹ)
• Spanish: calcáneo (es) m
• Swedish: hälben (sv)
• Tagalog: buto ng sakong
• Turkish: topuk kemiği (tr)