ankle joint

Questions about ankle joint

What does ankle joint mean?

ankle joint means "a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus".

What is another word for ankle joint?

Close synonyms include ankle, mortise joint, articulatio talocruralis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ankle joint a common word?

ankle joint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.