talus
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Surgeons removed her talus bone, which forms part of the ankle joint, after she developed an infection that prevented doctors from using metal implants.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Woods disclosed the surgery on Twitter and said it was a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from when he broke his talus bone in February 2021.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
The first four days featured very limited access points and the entire route required the “North Cascades’ finest bushwhacking,” glacier travel, snowfields, scree, boulder and talus fields, and scrambling.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
A little past the halfway mark, the trail leaves the forest and climbs a talus slope, offering views of Whitehorse Mountain and Three Fingers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
It led through a vast talus field and then, a mile or so farther on, into woods.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
A tali was brought out piled with boiled ducks’ eggs, crisply fried pooris, dal, rice, curries, chapatis, mango chutney, and many kinds of sweets.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
The giraffe was a tali drill that had been brought to the village by the two men who had visited earlier.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
The reference here may be to juggling with the tali on the stage, not to the pursuit of the game in domestic life.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
Unde et operatio animæ conjunctæ tali corpori erit perfectior quam operatio animæ separatæ.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux
To touch, to begin to take; to make use of.Talel, v. aor. tali, fut. talae or tae.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton
As recently as 10,000 years ago, bowl-like cirques in the park's mountains were sculpted by glaciers, which left in their wake gray carpets of rock known as taluses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of all the various kinds of ornamental work displayed—carving, tracery on cliff faces, moldings, arches, pinnacles—none is more admirably effective or charms more than the webs of rain-channeled taluses.
From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir
I was long in doubt on some points concerning the origin of those taluses.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
A few headlands, flat-topped and soil-covered, support clumps of cedar and pine; and up-curving tangles of chinquapin and live-oak, growing on rough earthquake taluses, girdle their bases.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
I came in sight of it after a hard scramble of two hours through thorny chaparral and across steep avalanche taluses of rocks and snow.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
