Cuboid bone - wikipedia Cuboid bone Cuboid bone The left cuboid. Antero - medial view. The left cuboid. Postero - lateral view Details Articulations Calcaneocuboid, cuboideonavicular and cuneocuboid articulation Identifiers Latin Os cuboideum MeSH A02. 835.232. 043.300. 710 Dorlands / Elsevier o_07 / 12598248 TA A02. 5.16. 001 FMA 24527 Anatomical terms of bone ( edit on Wikidata ) In the human body, the cuboid bone is one of the seven tarsal bones of the foot. Contents 1 Structure 1.1 Surfaces 1.2 Muscle attachments 2 Clinical significance 3 See also 4 References Structure The cuboid bone is the most lateral of the bones in the distal row of the tarsus. It is roughly cubical in shape, and presents a prominence in its inferior ( or plantar ) surface, the tuberosity of the cuboid. The bone provides a groove where the tendon of the peroneus longus muscle passes to reach its insertion in the first metatarsal and medial cuneiform bones. Surfaces The dorsal surface, directed upward and lateralward, is rough, for the attachment of ligaments. The plantar surface presents in front a deep groove, the peroneal sulcus, which runs obliquely forward and medialward ; it lodges the tendon of the peroneus longus, and is bounded behind by a prominent ridge, to which the long plantar ligament is attached. The ridge ends laterally in an eminence, the tuberosity, the surface of which presents an oval facet ; on this facet glides the sesamoid bone or cartilage frequently found in the tendon of the peroneus longus. The surface of bone behind the groove is rough, for the attachment of the plantar calcaneocuboid ligament, a few fibers of the flexor hallucis brevis, and a fasciculus from the tendon of the tibialis posterior. The lateral surface presents a deep notch formed by the commencement of the peroneal sulcus. The posterior surface is smooth, triangular, and concavo - convex, for articulation with the anterior surface of the calcaneus ( the calcaneocuboid joint ) ; its infero - medial angle projects backward as a process which underlies and supports the anterior end of the calcaneus. The anterior surface, of smaller size, but also irregularly triangular, is divided by a vertical ridge into two facets, forming the fourth and fifth tarsometatarsal joints : the medial facet, quadrilateral in form, articulates with the fourth metatarsal ; the lateral, larger and more triangular, articulates with the fifth. The medial surface is broad, irregularly quadrilateral, and presents at its middle and upper part a smooth oval facet, for articulation with the third cuneiform ; and behind this ( occasionally ) a smaller facet, for articulation with the navicular bone ; it is rough in the rest of its extent, for the attachment of strong interosseous ligaments. Muscle attachments Only one muscle is attached to the cuboid bone ; the tibialis posterior. The tibialis posterior inserts to the under surface of the cuboid bone. While the flexor hallucis brevis arises, by a pointed tendinous process, from the medial part of the under surface of the cuboid bone, from the contiguous portion of the lateral cuneiform bone, and from the prolongation of the tendon of the tibialis posterior. Clinical significance In a condition known as cuboid syndrome, the cuboid can be subluxated downward causing a swollen kind of ache along the central portion of the lateral border of the foot. See also Bone terminology Terms for anatomical location Knucklebones ( precursor of gaming dice ) References This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray 's Anatomy ( 1918 ) Jump up ^ Moore, KL. ; Dalley, AF. ; Agur, AM. ( 2013 ). Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 7th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 524. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4511 - 8447 - 1. Jump up ^ Bojsen - Møller, Finn ; Simonsen, Erik B. ; Tranum - Jensen, Jørgen ( 2001 ). Bevægeapparatets anatomi ( Anatomy of the Locomotive Apparatus ) ( in Danish ) ( 12th ed. ). p. 293. ISBN 978 - 87 - 628 - 0307 - 7. Cite uses deprecated parameter trans_title = ( help ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuboid Bone. 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Question: what is a cuboid bone in the foot
Answer: one of the seven tarsal bones of the foot