talus

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

He tackled cliffs that more than once left him dangling halfway be-tween talus and rim....

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

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

"I must better that," thundered the freedman, slapping the tali out on to the table.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

But, Dear Sir, I am not the champion called for by our present dangers; Non tali auxilio, nee defensoribus istis, tempus eget.'

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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

I found it somewhat difficult to keep up with him in dense, tangled brush, though in jumping on boulder taluses and slippery cobble-beds I had no difficulty in leaving him behind.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

The slopes or taluses represent the softer rock, the vertical walls the harder layers.

From Time and Change by John Burroughs

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

No other tree seems so capable of adapting itself to earthquake taluses, and many of these rough boulder-slopes are occupied by it almost exclusively, especially in yosemite gorges moistened by the spray of waterfalls.

From The Mountains of California by John Muir