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
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 ?douard Cuyer
The fleshy body which succeeds is directed towards the tarsus, but before reaching it is replaced by a tendon.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
The joint between the femur and tibia, corresponding to the knee of man, is called the “stifle-joint”; that between the tibia and tarsus, corresponding to the ankle of man, the “hock.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
To the tarsus succeeds the metatarsus, whose form reminds us very much of that of the metacarpals.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
This force relies on the parasite’s highly adapted feet, called tarsi, which are equipped with toothed claws.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 31, 2022
A narrow white labial stripe, white anal stripe, and narrow white stripes on the tarsi and outer edges of the forelimbs are invariably present.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
The dorsum is uniformly grayish green with the only dorsal marks being on the tarsi; canthal and post-tympanic dark marks absent.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
The legs are rather short, the feet stout, the tarsi reticulated, and the toes scutellated; the claws long and slightly curved.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
Bill very long; edges of the upper mandible slightly prominent near the hook; tarsi half-feathered; claws unequal, grooved beneath; wings with the fourth primary longest; nostrils transverse, with bony margin all round.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
