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

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

Tesserae, shaped and marked with pips like modern dice, were evolved from the tali, knuckle-bones with only four flat sides.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Where is the American, who will not indignantly say, in the language of a Roman writer, "Non tali auxilio nec defensoribtis istis."

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

When a person threw the tali, he often invoked either a god or his mistress.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz

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 avalanche taluses, leaning against the walls at intervals of a mile or two, are among the most striking and interesting of the secondary features of the Valley.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

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

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