heel

(hél) (L. cadx]. The hindmost part of the foot. anterior h., a triangular shaped piece of leather fastened obliquely acro the ball of the shoe just behind the heads of the metatarsal bones, the object being to support the heads, equalize the pre ure, and support the anterior arch. contracted Ὦ. See hoof-bound. h.-bone, the calcaneum. h.-fly, the ox-bot, Hypoder’ma line a'ta, which flies about the heels of cattle and lays its eggs on the hair. h.-jar, a feeling of pain experienced by a patient on raising on the toes and suddenly bringing the heels to the ground. In Pott’s disease the in is felt in the spine; in renal calculus it is felt in the lumbar region. h., a condition in which pain is caused by pre ure on the heel. weak h., a condition of the wall of a horse's hoof in which, owing to the softne of the horn and the oblique direction of the horn fibers, the heels are unable to bear the body weight.