In biology, a leg is the part of an animal's body (most commonly in one of the even numbers of 2, 4, 6 or 8, and many more in millipedes) that separates the body from the ground and is used for locomotion.
In an extended sense, a leg is any part of an object that supports it off the ground. An example is the legs of a table or a chair.
Strictly speaking, in human anatomy, the leg only includes everything between the knee and the foot, and is a part of the lower limb.
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2 Muscles of the human leg: 3 Vasculature of the leg |
Bones of the human leg (from hip joint to ankle joint):
Muscles of the human leg:
Muscles of the thigh
Muscles of the calf
Vasculature of the leg
The arteries
The veins