Boatswain of the Royal Navy, c. 1820. The word boatswain has been in the English language since approximately 1450. It is derived from late Old English batswegen, from bat (boat) concatenated with Old Norse sveinn (swain), meaning a young man, apprentice, a follower, retainer or servant.
The talus bone (/ËteÉªlÉs/ ; Latin for ankle), astragalus /ÉËstraeÉ¡ÉlÉs/ , ÉËstrÃ¦É¡ÉlÉs or ankle bone is one of the group of foot bones known as the. Tarsus the tarsus forms the lower part of the ankle joint through its articulations with the lateral and medial malleoli of the two bones of the lower, leg the tibia and. fibula
the most proximal of the tarsal bones. the talus articulates with the medial malleolus of the tibia and the lateral malleolus of the fibula to form the ankle mortise joint (Latin, talus = ankle bone) body. the proximal part of the talus. its superior (trochlear) part participates in the ankle joint and its inferior part articulates with the calcaneus.