Plantar calcaneocuboid ligament

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Ligament: Plantar calcaneocuboid ligament

Ligaments of the sole of the foot, with the tendons of the Peronæus longus, Tibialis posterior and Tibialis anterior muscles. (Plantar calcaneocuboid labeled at center left.)
Latin	ligamentum calcaneocuboideum plantare
Gray's	subject #96 354
From	calcaneus
To	cuboid
Dorlands/Elsevier	l_09/12491722

The plantar calcaneocuboid ligament (short calcaneocuboid ligament; short plantar ligament) is a ligament on the bottom of the foot that connects the calcaneus to the cuboid bone. It lies deep to the long plantar ligament.

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The plantar calcaneocuboid ligament lies nearer to the bones than the long plantar ligament, from which it is separated by a little areolar tissue.

It is a short but wide band of great strength, and extends from the tubercle and the depression in front of it, on the forepart of the plantar surface of the calcaneus, to the plantar surface of the cuboid behind the groove for the fibularis longus tendon.

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