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

This proceeds towards the tarsus, but previously it passes between the tibia and fibula.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Sellanders, sel′an-dėrs, n. an eruption in the tarsus of the horse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In the dog and the cat, it is inserted into the ligamentous apparatus of the tarsus, or into the base of the second metatarsal.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Bill shorter than the head, stout, straight, compressed; upper mandible expanding at the base and forming a disc on the forehead; toes entirely divided, bordered by a narrow entire membrane, middle toe longer than tarsus.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.