You know, in some human worlds, they'd call your tarsus a cankle!. From Wordnik.com. [Cute Overload] Reference
All the rest of the leg, made of several short segments, we will call the tarsus, and we will mark it V. From Wordnik.com. [The Insect Folk] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Evolution] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Manus: the hand: formerly applied to the anterior tarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The behaviour of the different bones of the tarsus varied somewhat. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Claws: the claw or hook-like structures at the end of the foot or tarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The second time, he/she must get his left feet cut from below the tarsus. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Palma: the basal segment of the anterior tarsus when it is broadened or specifically modified. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Foot: the tarsus, q.v.; improperly used to = leg; but in the plural form refers to legs rather than tarsi: see feet. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Measurements of the adult males that I have examined are: wing, 101.1 mm. (97-106); tail, 66.5 mm. (62-69); tarsus, 25.6 mm. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Fibrous tumors are sometimes located in the inferior part of the medial side of the tarsus -- exactly over the seat of bone-spavin. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Larvae have 3 pairs of legs with a single claw on the end of their one-segmented tarsus that they use to crawl along the substrate. From Wordnik.com. [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference
With such a shoe, little support is given the sides of the foot; hence, undue strain is put upon the collateral ligaments of the tarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The most specialized of the lemurs is the tarsier (tahr'see-ur; so called because the bones of its tarsus, or ankle, are much elongated). From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
This correlation is a graded one, for camels, which have a more perfect dentition than other ruminants, have also a bone more in their tarsus. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
All things considered, perhaps open joints rank, with respect to being serious cases as follows: elbow, navicular, stifle, tarsus, carpus, fetlock and pastern. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
In support of this view it may be added that such injuries were most common in the bones of the tarsus, bones especially liable to be struck by ricochet bullets. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The tarsus folds back; and the antennæ are held as in a vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
In the former Mr. Blyth finds the tarsus remarkably variable in length. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
Various plans of amputating through the tarsus have been devised and described at great length. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
With his fore-legs, using a special notch placed at the juncture of the leg and the tarsus, he seizes both her antennæ. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
Thus the more he struggled the more tightly his tarsus became wedged in the trap, the foot preventing it from slipping through. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
The tarsus was firmly coated with mud, weighing when dry 9 grains, and from this the Juncus bufonius, or toad rush, germinated. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
He is to divide the skin, and the extensor tendons, and the muscles in that situation, so as to expose the convexity of the tarsus. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
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