What is the meaning of Malleolus?

  • (n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
  • (n.) " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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