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

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

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

But whatever element of dexterity may have originally pervaded the pastime, it was very rapidly dispelled, and both tali and tesseræ became, as they have since remained, the instruments of wagering and gain.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

Non tali auxilio, we exclaim, with a shudder of remembrance, and are very glad to read these concluding words: "I read the promise of better times and of greater men."

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

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 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

Those vast sloping taluses are as clean as a meadow; rarely at the foot of the huge vertical walls do you see a fragment of fallen rock.

From Time and Change by John Burroughs

The cottages were thatched and claywashed, and while some of them had a couple of strides of garden in front, others rose from little taluses of blown sand.

From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

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