Do you make going to the store to buy groceries a fascinating experience? Do you offer witty observations of the people you pass on the street? If so, you're a raconteur, someone who can regale his or her listeners with riveting stories, usually funny, sometimes dramatic. Raconteur comes from the French word raconter, meaning to recount.. Note its eur ending, signaling its French origin.
Tarsals are located in the top part of your feet. Think of a straight leg as an L, the tarsals are located where the L bends to form a foot.
In humans, the calcaneus is the largest of the tarsal bones and the largest bone of the foot. The talus, calcaneus, and navicular are considered the proximal row of tarsal bones. In the calcaneus, several important structures can be distinguished: