Synonyms:
ankle, ankle_joint, mortise_joint, articulatio_talocruralis
Meaning: a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus
Usage examples
"Ankle indeed!
"My ankle," gasped Anne.
Gertrude and her injured ankle!
I expect I have sprained my ankle.
He told me all about the time he broke his ankle when he was a boy.
It's not a bit nice to faint, after all. And the doctor hurt me dreadfully when he was setting my ankle.
"I tell you I put my foot on one of those horrid stones they make the roads with, and it gave my ankle such a twist."
Our panting ankle barely gained When night devoured the road; But we stood whispering in the house, And all we said was "Saved"!
After a while she stopped, and when she stopped she looked at Emily, who seemed to be gazing at her around the side of one ankle, and actually with a kind of glassy-eyed sympathy.
"And oh, Anne dear," wrote Priscilla, "I'm so sorry, but I'm afraid we won't get up to Green Gables at all now, for by the time Aunty's ankle is well she will have to go back to Toronto.