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 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
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 Cuyer, ?douard
In other quadrupeds, the articulations which bind together the bones of the tarsus possess a little more freedom of movement.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
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
