In the latter also the fibula, which is anchylosed to the end of the tibia, articulates with the Calcaneum or heel-bone, which is not the case with the simple-toothed rodents.
"Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon"
Robert A. Sterndale
Near the middle of the leg, the nerve recrosses the artery to its outer side and in this relative position both descend to a point about midway between the inner ankle and Calcaneum, where they appear having the tendons of the tibialis posticus and flexor longus digitorum to their inner side and the tendon of the flexor longus pollicis on their outer side.
"Surgical Anatomy"
Joseph Maclise
Placed at first between the origin of the abductor pollicis and the Calcaneum, the external plantar artery passes outwards between the short common flexor, B, and the flexor accessorius, E, to gain the inner borders of the muscles of the little toe; from this place it curves deeply inwards between the tendons of the long common flexor of the toes, F f f, and the tarso-metatarsal joints, to gain the outer side of the first metatarsal bone, H, Plate 68, Figure 2. In this course it is covered in its posterior half by the flexor brevis digitorum, and in its anterior half by this muscle, together with the tendons of the long flexor, F, Plate 68, Figure 1, of the toes and the lumbricales muscles, i i i i.
"Surgical Anatomy"
Joseph Maclise
