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 bone in that area is called the Mastoid, which is actually part of a bigger bone called the Temporal bone, which in turn is part of the skull.I read an article on a grafting of skin from that area and that's how I learned that it was just named after the bone there.astoid Skin. The bone in that area is called the Mastoid, which is actually part of a bigger bone called the Temporal bone, which in turn is part of the skull. I read an article on a grafting of skin from that area and that's how I learned that it was just named after the bone there.