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 bones of the tarsus are not seven in all animals; they are fewer in ruminants and solipeds.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
On the posterior limbs it is developed on the back of the superior extremity of the internal surface of the canon, towards the inferior part of the ham—that is, the tarsus.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Bill with an elevated tubercle at the base, depressed in the middle; nostrils large, pervious; lower portion of tarsus in front with a row of transverse scutellæ.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
In the dog and the cat, it is inserted into the ligamentous apparatus of the tarsus, or into the base of the second metatarsal.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
