navicular

American  

[nuh-vik-yuh-ler] / nəˈvɪk yə lər /

adjective

1. boat-shaped, as certain bones.

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noun

1. Also naviculare the bone at the radial end of the proximal row of the bones of the carpus.

2. the bone in front of the talus on the inner side of the foot.

navicular British  

adjective

1. shaped like a boat

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noun

1. a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot

Etymology

Origin of navicular

1535–45; < Late Latin nāviculāris of, relating to shipping, equivalent to Latin nāvicul ( a ) a small ship ( nāvi ( s ) ship + -cula -cule ¹; ) + -āris -ar ¹

Example Sentences

There was a stress reaction in his navicular bone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023

I went into the locker room and then got X-rays up in the training room, then Dr. Tingstad was like, ‘Yeah, you broke your navicular.’

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2018

She had broken the navicular, a small but significant bone on the top of her left foot.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018

A navicular stress fracture cut her college running career short.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

Below and in front of the prominent medial malleolus, the head of the talus forms a rounded eminence, and a little farther forwards and lower still is the projection of the tubercle of the navicular.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander