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 talus and the calcaneus are the two most posterior bones in the foot, as well, as the largest of the tarsal bones of the foot. The talus articulates with the distal tibia and fibula above to form the mortise joint of the ankle.It articulates below with the calcaneus. No muscles actually insert on the talus.he foot and ankle are generally discussed by breaking them into several anatomical regions. The ankle joint, which is the distal aspect of the tibia and the fibula articulating with the talus, is the most proximal joint.