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A body part that supports or suspends another organ or part.

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  • Instead of the column on the Gospel side for the Paschal candle, there is a small bracket (“parvum sustentaculum”) in the middle of the sanctuary, as the new rubric states.
  • —The medial talocalcaneal ligament connects the medial tubercle of the back of the talus with the back of the sustentaculum tali.
  • The middle calcaneal articular surface is small, oval in form and slightly convex; it articulates with the upper surface of the sustentaculum tali of the calcaneus.
  • Peroneocalcaneus internus, rare, origin below or outside the Flexor hallucis from the back of the fibula, passes over the sustentaculum tali with the Flexor hallucis and...
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