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n. - Part of the foot of a vertebrate animal.

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Usage examples (25)
  • You know, in some human worlds, they'd call your tarsus a cankle!
  • All the rest of the leg, made of several short segments, we will call the tarsus, and we will mark it V.
  • But the most striking contrast between the two lies in the bones of the leg and of that part of the foot termed the tarsus, which follows upon the leg.
  • This term is applied to an affection of the tarsus which is usually characterized by the existence of an exostosis on the mesial and inferior portion of the hock.
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