Landmark · Skeletal system
Lateral tubercle
Tuberculum laterale
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Lower limb, Foot
- Side
- Left and right
- Landmark on
- Talus
DescriptionUnreviewed
Lateral part of the posterior process of talus, lateral to the groove for flexor hallucis longus.
Exceptionally, this tubercle forms an independent bone called os trigonum or accessory talus.
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Names
- Latin
- Tuberculum laterale
- English
- Lateral tubercle
- French
- Tubercule latéral
- Spanish
- Tubérculo lateral
- Portuguese
- Tubérculo lateral