LIGAMENTS OF THE FOOT. 255 



ments are to be demonstrated by tearing the bones apart, 

 when the dissection is completed. These ligaments are 

 only found between the outer four metatarsal bones, that 

 of the great toe not being united with the others; the second 

 and third metatarsal bones are also firmly connected with 

 the external and internal cuneiform bones. The heads of 

 the metatarsal bones are connected inferiorly by transverse 

 metatarsal ligaments. 



The metatarso-plialangeal articulations are maintained 

 by two lateral ligaments and- an inferior ligament, the 

 expansion of the extensor tendon supplying the place of a 

 superior one. 



The phalanges are united to each other by two lateral 

 ligaments and an inferior ligament, and by the expansion 

 of the extensor tendon superiorly. The joints between the 

 phalanges are sometimes very indistinct, and occasionally 

 co-ossified. The ligamentous arrangements and the inser- 

 tions of the tendons are precisely the same as in the fingers, 

 and are much more satisfactorily studied in the hand, the 

 description of which is given at p. 160. 



