Definition of Maleolus
||Mal*le"*o*lus (?), n.; pl.
Malleoli (#). [L., dim. of malleus hammer.]
1. (Anat.) 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.
2. " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the
ground, and there cut halfway through.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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