Second tarsal bone
Os tarsale II
One of the distal row of tarsal bones, between the central tarsal bone and the metatarsus.
About the second tarsal bone of the pig
Second tarsal bone is a bone of the back leg (pelvic limb), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Os tarsale II. You can turn it above, see it in place in the back leg of the pig, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Measured on the specimen
What the second tarsal bone is in contact with in the model itself, with the share of the other structure’s surface it covers. A contact is not always a joint: bones that simply lie against one another are in this list too.
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Second tarsal bone
- Latin (NAV)
- Os tarsale II
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the second tarsal bone
- What is the Latin name of the second tarsal bone?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the second tarsal bone is called Os tarsale II.
- Where is the second tarsal bone of the pig?
- Second tarsal bone is a bone of the back leg (pelvic limb), one on each side of the body.
See the second tarsal bone inside the whole pig.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
