tarsus
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Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The articulations of the bones of the tarsus, and of these with the metatarsus, do not offer any interest with regard to mobility, this being almost wholly absent at that level.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Retrotarsal, rē-trō-tar′sal, adj. being behind the tarsus of the eye.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The tarsus is formed of short bones, as the carpus is; these are, in man, seven in number.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Tarsometatar′sal, pertaining to the tarsus and the metatarsus.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
