Common examples are in fractures of the metacarpus and metatarsus of the first phalanx. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Feet black, webbed, the membrane being deeply notched, great toe articulated to the metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The hock is said to be curbed when the normal appearance, viewed from the side, is that of bulging posteriorly at any point between the summit of the calcaneum and the upper third of the metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The thigh bone corresponds to the humerus; the tibia and fibula to the ulna and radius; the ankle to the wrist; and the metatarsus and the phalanges of the foot, to the metacarpus and the phalanges of the hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The theca through which the deep digital flexor (perforans) plays in the tarsal region, begins about three inches above the inner tibial malleolus and extends about one-fourth of the way down the metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Has the hinder part of metatarsus bald and callous. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
This assumes fate doesn't meddle, fracture a metatarsus and result in the ingestion of meds. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Thus romance, beginning at the metatarsus, slowly but surely ascends to the diastolic region!. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
The skeleton of the foot (Figs. 268 and 269) consists of three parts: the tarsus, metatarsus, and phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus] Reference
The lower right leg, foot, and toe-nails were well preserved; the left was a mere bone, wanting tarsus and metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Hind legs drive on a line with the forelegs, with hock joints and rear pasterns (metatarsus) turning neither in nor out. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Feet -- if the rear toes turn out very slightly when the hocks and metatarsus are parallel, then the position of the feet is correct. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Legs viewed from the side, the legs are well angulated with the metatarsus slightly inclined, the hock making an angle of 135 degrees. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The metatarsus consists of five bones which are numbered from the medial side (ossa metatarsalia I. - V.); each presents for examination a body and two extremities. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6d. 2. The Metatarsus] Reference
In the former, the femur and metatarsus (but not the tibia) are considerably lengthened, relatively to the same bones in the wild duck, and to the wing-bones in both birds. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
There seem at first to be no tarsal bones; and only one bone, divided at the end into three heads for the three toes which are attached to it, appears in the place of the metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Evolution] Reference
The line "a 'a'" in the foot indicates the boundary between the tarsus and metatarsus; "b 'b'" marks that between the metatarsus and the proximal phalanges; and "c 'c'" bounds the ends of the distal phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
This is because the size of the foot is an essential characteristic of the species, for no animal has the tarsus and metatarsus combined so small as man; hence the uprightness of his gait: he is a plantigrade. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference
The hand and foot are constructed on somewhat similar principles, each consisting of a proximal part, the carpus or the tarsus, a middle portion, the metacarpus, or the metatarsus, and a terminal portion, the phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6d. 4. Comparison of the Bones of the Hand and Foot] Reference
(internal and external lateral) and to the metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
(metatarsus) are short, straight and parallel turning neither in nor out. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Go away, Deane commanded, with the austere authority of his beautiful metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
(calcis) bone to the metatarsus; traction exerted upon its summit by the tendo Achillis is great when animals run, jump or rear and also at heavy pulling. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
(external) tibial malleolus and its distal portions are attached to the tibial tarsal (astragalus), fibular tarsal (calcaneum) bone, fourth tarsal (cuboid) and metatarsus bones. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The line “a’ a’” in the foot indicates the boundary between the tarsus and metatarsus; “b’ b’” marks that between the metatarsus and the proximal phalanges; and “c’. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
This result may support the hypothesis that pathological variation in the metatarsus was affected by habitual behaviour including the wearing of footwear and exposure to modern substrates. ". From Wordnik.com. [About.com Walking] Reference
Another of the metatarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
Hinder edge of metatarsus covered with hair. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Sparse hairs sprinkled the metatarsus like ferns. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
Tuberculous disease in the #tarsus#, #metatarsus#, and #phalanges# has been considered in the chapter on Diseases of Bone. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
The clavical, humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fibula, the bones of the metacarpus, metatarsus and the phalanges, are classed as long bones. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
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