HEEL

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1893 · p. 11

n. Hel. A.-S., hel. Gr., vrepva. Lat., calx. Fr., talon. Her., Ferse. It., calcagno. Sp., talon. The part of the foot that >rojects behind; in birds, the upper back part of the tar so-meta-.ars us (tarsus or shank). [L, 343.] HEERA-BOL,, n. In the East Indies, myrrh. [B, 121 (a, 35).] [s. 298]