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Wiki Loves Earth Photograph nature for Wikipedia and win! Hide Foot Article Talk Language Watch View source This article is about the anatomical structure. For the unit of measure, see Foot (unit). For other uses, see Foot (disambiguation). This article uses anatomical terminology. The foot (pl.: feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate[clarification needed] organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws and/or nails. Foot

Right foot of a human Details Artery Dorsalis pedis, medial plantar, lateral plantar Nerve Medial plantar, lateral plantar, deep fibular, superficial fibular Identifiers Latin pes MeSH D005528 TA98 A01.1.00.040 TA2 166 FMA 9664 Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata] Contents Etymology

The word "foot", in the sense of meaning the "terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal" comes from Old English fot, from Proto-Germanic *fot (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr, Danish fod, Swedish fot, Dutch voet, Old High German fuoz, German Fuß, Gothic fotus, all meaning "foot"), from PIE root *ped- "foot".[1] The plural form feet is an instance of i-mutation.[1] Structure

The feet of a newborn infant

A woman's foot, decorated with nail polish and henna, and wearing a metti (toe ring) on the second toe, for her wedding The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.[2] The joints of the foot are the ankle and subtalar joint and the interphalangeal joints of the foot. An anthropometric study of 1197 North American adult Caucasian males (mean age 35.5 years) found that a man's foot length was 26.3 cm with a standard deviation of 1.2 cm.[3] The foot can be subdivided into the hindfoot, the midfoot, and the forefoot: