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sustentacula

sustentacula is the plural of sustentaculum.

Meaning of sustentaculum

Noun

sustentaculum (plural sustentacula or sustentaculums)

  1. A supporting structure, a body part that supports one or more other parts.
    • The ligamentum talocalcaneum mediale lies obliquely on the medial side of the joint, and consists of fibres which extend from the medial posterior tubercle of the talus to the posterior roughened border of the sustentaculum tali.1818, Daniel John Cunningham, Cunningham's Textbook of Anatomy, page 355

Questions about sustentacula

What is sustentacula the plural of?
Sustentacula is the plural of sustentaculum.

Words near sustentacula in the dictionary

  1. sustenance
  2. sustenances
  3. sustenation
  4. sustentacle
  5. sustentacles
  6. sustentacula
  7. sustentacular
  8. sustentaculum
  9. sustentaculums
  10. sustentate
  11. sustentated

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