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

The worst throw was called canis—three aces in tesseræ, and four aces in tali.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

The Romans of old are said to have played with two sorts of dice, the tali and the tesseræ.

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

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 was long in doubt on some points concerning the origin of those taluses.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

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 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

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