We have reached our last set of anatomical terms for body regions, focusing on terms for the foot. Same disclaimer as always. Check your notes. Every professor, every class has a slightly different list they want you to know, so make sure you know what you need to study for your test. Alright.
First up, we have tarsal. Tarsal is the ankle or the tarsal region is the ankle region and the tarsals are the ankle bones. Now, I say here learn with carpal. If you remember, carpal is the wrist. The wrist and the ankle are pretty similar body regions, and carpal and tarsal sound similar. So, carpal is the wrist, tarsal is the ankle. Now if we go over here, we see metatarsal. Metatarsal is the bones of the foot. And if you remember the wrist, we had carpal, metacarpal. The same pattern here, tarsal, metatarsal. You remember meta means after, and in this case, tarsal means ankle. So after the ankle, the metatarsal is the bones of the foot.
Moving down, we have calcaneal. Calcanea is the heel, and the calcaneus is the heel bone. Now that comes from calcanea, which is Latin for chalk. And, I don't know about you, but if I look at my heel, the skin looks pretty white and chalky. So that helps me remember it. Calcaneal, heel. Moving down, we have hallux. Hallux is just Latin for your big toe, and the way I remember it is I say how has a luxuriously large big toe. How, lux. Hallux, big toe.
Finally, we have digital, and digital is just your toes. Now, you'll note we have the same word digital for your fingers and your toes. You count digits on your fingers, and if you run out of fingers to count on, well, you can keep counting on your toes. So the same word for fingers and toes, digital. With that, we have learned our anatomical terms for body regions. Good job, everybody.