How many metatarsals are in the foot

In this anatomy lesson, I’m going to cover the foot bones, which make up part of the appendicular skeleton. Each foot contains 26 bones: 7 tarsals, 5 metatarsals, and 14 phalanges.

Metatarsal bones

When you combine the bones from both feet, you get 52 bones out of the 206 bones in the average adult skeleton. The bones in your feet make up a whopping 25% of the bones of your body!

Toe Bones (Phalanges)

Let’s start with the toes and work our way back.

The bones that make up your toes are called phalanges (singular: phalanx), just like the finger bones. There are three phalanges for each toe, except for the big toe (also called great toe or hallux), which has only two phalanges.

The toes (or digits) are numbered one through five:

• The great toe (also called hallux) is digit number one, just as the thumb (pollex) is number one on the hand.

  It has only a distal and proximal phalanx.

• The long toe is digit number two.
• The middle toe is digit number three.
• The ring toe is digit number four.
• The pinky toe is digit number five.

As with the fingers, th

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