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Definition of Human foot
1. Noun. The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint. "Armored from head to foot"
Group relationships: Homo, Human, Human Being, Man, Leg
Terms within: Calcaneus, Heelbone, Os Tarsi Fibulare, Arcuate Artery, Arteria Arcuata, Arteria Digitalis, Digital Arteries, Arteria Metatarsea, Metatarsal Artery, Intercapitular Vein, Vena Intercapitalis, Metatarsal Vein, Vena Metatarsus, Instep, Sole, Toe, Big Toe, Great Toe, Hallux, Little Toe, Heel
Generic synonyms: Pedal Extremity, Vertebrate Foot
Specialized synonyms: Flatfoot, Pes Planus, Splayfoot
Derivative terms: Foot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Human Foot
Literary usage of Human foot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboreal Man by Frederic Wood Jones (1916)
"CHAPTER XIII THE human foot THE human hand, a strangely, almost shockingly,
primitive survival, has received enormous praise mistakenly lavished by the ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Those who look on the human foot as fully partaking of the beauty of which artists
... The human foot is, moreover, an object of far more than the ordinary ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"... Length of tlte Second Toe of tiie human foot. By J. PARK HARRISON, MA 7.
Ebb awl Flow in Mental Endowment. ..."
4. Report on the Geological and Agricultural Survey of the State of Rhode-Island by Charles Thomas Jackson (1840)
"hoof, and the other has exactly the shape and size of a human foot, even the mark
of a great toe being pointed out by the lad who explained to me the story. ..."
5. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"No doubt certain conditions in the ape's foot resemble the conditions present in
the hand, and differ from those of the human foot. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The human foot is placed in the prone position, with the sole or plantar surface
in relation to the ground ; the dorsum or back of the foot ..."
7. An introduction to the osteology of the mammalia: Being the Substance of the by William Henry Flower (1876)
"114 —Bones of a right human foot, showing the epiphyses, J. T tarsus; M metatarsus;
Ph phalanges; c calcaneum ; a astragalus; ^cuboid; / / navicular; ..."
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