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 articulations of the bones of the tarsus, and of these with the metatarsus, do not offer any interest with regard to mobility, this being almost wholly absent at that level.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
Thence it passes towards the tarsus and divides into two fasciculi, internal and external, which are continued by tendons.
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
The bones of the tarsus are not seven in all animals; they are fewer in ruminants and solipeds.
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
Tail of fourteen feathers; tarsi armed with blunt spurs in male.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
The limbs are remarkably stout, and the robust tarsi are of a yellow colour.
Bill short, cutting edges of the upper mandible nearly straight; tarsi naked; outer toe reversible; claws equal, rounded beneath; wings with the second primary longest.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
Bill strong; eyebrows naked, adorned with scarlet papillæ; tarsi feathered, without spurs; front toes naked, with pectinated margins; hind toe larger than the nail.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
