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

Pal′ma, the palm: the enlarged proximal joint of the fore tarsus of a bee.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Scutell′iform, scutellate; Scutellig′erous, provided with a scutellum; Scutelliplan′tar, having the back of the tarsus scutellate.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Retrotarsal, rē-trō-tar′sal, adj. being behind the tarsus of the eye.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The tarsus is formed of short bones, as the carpus is; these are, in man, seven in number.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard