ankle
(æŋkəl )
Word forms: ankles
countable noun [usually poss NOUN] B1
Your ankle is the joint where your foot joins your leg.
John twisted his ankle badly.
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FOOT big toe toe toenail sole heel ankle Collocations:
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The hook connects to the ankle cuff and lifts the shoe up when the patient walks.
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There are also adjustable handcuffs to lock the arms in place and ankle cuffs.
Times, Sunday Times
There are messenger bags with shocking-pink reflective detail; jewel-like wrist and ankle cuffs in a rainbow of cool colours; cute but functional saddle bags that double as handbags.
Times, Sunday Times
The England striker has fired three goals in two games since a lengthy layoff with an ankle injury.
The Sun (2016)
But he is a doubt for today's lunchtime kick-off with an ankle injury.
The Sun (2016)
The nagging ankle injury that kept him out for long periods last term came back to haunt him last Friday against Coventry.
The Sun (2014)
His old ankle injury is niggling him.
The Sun (2009)
Even the most common ankle ligament injuries can lead to long-term consequences as severe as arthritis, according to a top foot and ankle specialist.
Times, Sunday Times
Having returned from a knee injury, he now has ankle ligament damage.
The Sun
He was expected to be out for eight weeks with ankle ligament damage, but returns after missing just two matches.
The Sun
The midfielder had a spell on the sidelines earlier this season after tearing an ankle ligament.
The Sun
It was the ideal comeback for the 23-year-old, who had been out for three weeks with ankle ligament damage.
The Sun
He also had to pay $250,000 a month for an armed guard and security team and was required to wear an ankle monitor.
Times, Sunday Times
He was subject to extensive and expensive conditions, including an ankle monitor, surveillance cameras and armed guards.
Times, Sunday Times
She would agree to wear an ankle monitor if released, her lawyers said.
Times, Sunday Times
He says he has an order to remove his ankle monitor.
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At timed intervals, the ankle monitor sends a radio frequency signal containing location and other information to a receiver.
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He had a high ankle sprain and had some injections to even get on the bench today.
The Sun
A scan revealed a severe ankle sprain.
The Sun
They may include injuries such as tendonitis, fatigue, knee or ankle sprain, extreme dehydration (electrolyte imbalance), as well as others.
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He missed ten games due to a right ankle sprain.
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What made those finishes even more impressive was the fact that he performed most of the indoor season while nursing an ankle sprain.
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Not so if you've gone over on your ankle, though — a common problem if you're barefoot, without the ankle support of a shoe.
The Sun
If it's a nuisance, you might find an ankle support or a compression stocking helps.
The Sun
Without wanting to sound like a dinosaur, it also offers better ankle support and thicker soles that grip.
Times, Sunday Times
Wearing a firm ankle support will help keep the swelling down and also protect you from going over on it again while it's healing.
The Sun
For sufficient ankle support and overall control, your boots should fit snugly - you may need to come down half a size from your regular shoe size.
Times, Sunday Times
He wears ankle weights and checks his heart-rate monitor.
Times, Sunday Times
Add hand and ankle weights for greater resistance.
Times, Sunday Times
When padding around the house, or doing her laundry, she often wore ankle weights to tone her legs.
Times, Sunday Times
In regard to the flexion muscles of the ankle, weighted footwear provides unique methods of working them that ankle weights do not.
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Early resistance exercise minimizes muscle atrophy and weakness and a variety of exercises - elastic bands, ankle weights, heel raise exercises - may be used.
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Each week she leads favoured friends on a ramble, despite a physical awkwardness that caused her on one occasion to break her ankle while stumbling over a host's threshold.
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Even small forces could produce torques able to break the ankle or knee, and spiral fractures of the calf were common.
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If a person hits with the arch or the ball of the foot, then that can injure the foot or break an ankle.
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She has won three times on the trot up to 2012 but broke her ankle here in 2008.
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They were dangerous tackles that could have broken the ankles of his opponents.
Times,Sunday Times
He was airlifted to hospital with a fractured ankle and chest injuries.
The Sun
He had a long period out with a serious concussion, and then with a fractured ankle, and even when fit last season he grasped that he was diminished.
Times, Sunday Times
Scans later revealed a fractured ankle.
The Sun
A fractured ankle kept him off the ice for two months in 2013.
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The only injury reported was a fractured ankle, when the employee jumped down a burning stairwell to survive.
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Remarkably she emerged from the resulting scene of destruction with nothing worse than an injured ankle.
Times, Sunday Times
The pair were both treated for hypothermia and one for an injured ankle.
The Sun
The 26-year-old failed a late-morning fitness test on an injured ankle yesterday, but would not have worn the armband had he made it on to the field.
Times, Sunday Times
She hasn't been on the same programme as me but seeing her injured ankle in a 'bionic' boot will give the bosses ideas.
The Sun
He played much of the season on an injured ankle.
Globe and Mail
He needed a cortisone injection to ease the pain in a sore ankle.
The Sun (2015)
He just woke up one morning with a sore ankle.
The Sun (2007)
A swollen ankle and torn muscles and ligaments were new experiences for this lithe, fit fiftysomething countryman, who had been in his post since 1905.
Times,Sunday Times
He will have a scan today on a swollen ankle.
Times, Sunday Times
Swollen ankle, swollen glands - diminishing expectations.
Times, Sunday Times
Less common causes of swollen ankles include heart problems, medication sideeffects and kidney trouble.
The Sun
I loved my bump, but couldn't help feeling self-conscious about my swollen ankles.
The Sun
You need to be sure-footed, however, because you can easily twist an ankle if you topple to one side in them.
The Sun
Never use running shoes as you could twist an ankle when moving sideways.
Times, Sunday Times
You had to avoid the trees and make sure you didn't twist your ankle in any of the holes in the ground.
The Sun
Not, perhaps, a place to twist an ankle.
Times, Sunday Times
Some folks twist an ankle when wrongly stepping off a curb.
Houston Chronicle
The defender has missed the last four games with a twisted ankle.
The Sun
For most people with problems such as back ache, a twisted ankle, headache or period pains, the choice will lie between over-the-counter paracetamol or ibuprofen.
Times, Sunday Times
You wait for your twisted ankle to get better, and find it never quite goes back to being exactly how it was.
Times, Sunday Times
I'm talking here about that picnic five-a-side that suddenly became a bit argie-bargie, or the beach cricket with the twisted ankle, or the garden basketball with the broken nose.
Times, Sunday Times
A twisted ankle with no loss of earnings and 'complete or near complete recovery in reasonable time' scores 'up to 9,000'.
Times, Sunday Times
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