Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
second metatarsal
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Second metatarsal bone
The
second metatarsal bone
is a
long bone
in the foot. The second metatarsal bone is the longest of the
metatarsal bones
, being prolonged backward and held firmly into the recess formed by the three
cuneiform bones
. The second metatarsal forms
joints
with the
second proximal phalanx
(a bone in the second toe) through the
metatarsophalangeal joint
, the cuneiform bones,
third metatarsal
and occasionally the
first metatarsal bone
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License