talus
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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
The yellow bull grazed in open view, but the speckled cows stayed in the juniper, listening like deer to Tayo’s approach, their spotted hides blending into the sandy talus of the big mesa.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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 reference here may be to juggling with the tali on the stage, not to the pursuit of the game in domestic life.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
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 Steinmetz, Andrew
Instead of calmly reviewing the arguments which I adduced, The Rock might have raised a cry of non tali auxilio.
From The Fair Haven by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)
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
No other tree in the Sierra seems so much at home on earthquake taluses and many of these huge boulder-slopes are almost exclusively occupied by it.
From The Yosemite by Muir, John
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 Muir, John
The slopes or taluses represent the softer rock, the vertical walls the harder layers.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
The divide on the left towered up with rugged majesty, reddish in color, and split into gigantic irregular terraces, the taluses of which were all crowded with dense chaparral growths.
