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

The next day, they told me I had a stress reaction in my navicular bone, so I was kinda dealing with two problems.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Nadal, who has a longstanding foot problem because his navicular bone did not correctly ossify during childhood, was upbeat about his progress after his loss to Harris.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

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

The most common seat of pain is at the medial border of the foot behind the tubercle of the navicular, and this is due to stretching of the inferior calcaneo-navicular ligament.

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