malleolus

Pain above right external malleolus.

Uncus, ung′kus, n. a hook or claw, or a hook-like process: the head of the malleolus or lateral tooth of the mastax of a wheel-animalcule:—pl.

Malleolus, ma-lē′ō-lus, n. a bony protuberance on either side of the ankle.—adj.

The inferior extremity, less thick, is prolonged internally by a prominence which corresponds to the internal malleolus of man.

Its inferior extremity, when it exists—it is this which disappears in animals which have the fibula incompletely developed—forms a prominence which, placed on the external surface of the inferior extremity of the tibia, articulates with the astragalus, and recalls the external malleolus of man.