Landmark · Skeletal system
Sustentaculum tali
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Lower limb, Foot
- Side
- Left and right
- Landmark on
- Calcaneus
DescriptionUnreviewed
At the upper and forepart of the medial surface of the calcaneus, below the middle talar facet, there is a horizontal eminence, the talar shelf (also sustentaculum tali), which gives attachment to the plantar calcaneonavicular (spring) ligament, tibiocalcaneal ligament, and medial talocalcaneal ligament.
This eminence is concave above, and articulates with the middle calcaneal articular surface of the talus; below, it is grooved for the tendon of the flexor hallucis longus; its anterior margin gives attachment to the plantar calcaneonavicular ligament, and its medial margin to a part of the deltoid ligament of the ankle-joint.
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Names
- Latin
- Sustentaculum tali
- English
- Sustentaculum tali
- French
- Sustentaculum tali
- Spanish
- Sustentáculo del talo
- Portuguese
- Sustentáculo do tálus