talus

Surgeons removed her talus bone, which forms part of the ankle joint, after she developed an infection that prevented doctors from using metal implants.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

Woods disclosed the surgery on Twitter and said it was a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from when he broke his talus bone in February 2021.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

The first four days featured very limited access points and the entire route required the “North Cascades’ finest bushwhacking,” glacier travel, snowfields, scree, boulder and talus fields, and scrambling.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

A little past the halfway mark, the trail leaves the forest and climbs a talus slope, offering views of Whitehorse Mountain and Three Fingers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

He tackled cliffs that more than once left him dangling halfway be-tween talus and rim....

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The giraffe was a tali drill that had been brought to the village by the two men who had visited earlier.

From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

A tali was brought out piled with boiled ducks’ eggs, crisply fried pooris, dal, rice, curries, chapatis, mango chutney, and many kinds of sweets.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

The tali had four even surfaces, the tesseræ six.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

In playing, they used three tesserae and four tali, which were all put into a box wider below than above, and being shaken, were thrown out upon the gaming-board or table.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Was our great quarrel not to be fought without tali auxilio and istis defensoribus?

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

As recently as 10,000 years ago, bowl-like cirques in the park's mountains were sculpted by glaciers, which left in their wake gray carpets of rock known as taluses.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is here that an overhanging and tip-tilted horn, a good sea-mark for Hatiheu, bursts naked from the verdure of the climbing forest, and breaks down shoreward in steep taluses and cliffs.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Furthermore, all these taluses throughout the Range seemed by the trees and lichens growing on them to be of the same age.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

A few headlands, flat-topped and soil-covered, support clumps of cedar and pine; and up-curving tangles of chinquapin and live-oak, growing on rough earthquake taluses, girdle their bases.

From The Mountains of California by John Muir

Of all the various kinds of ornamental work displayed—carving, tracery on cliff faces, moldings, arches, pinnacles—none is more admirably effective or charms more than the webs of rain-channeled taluses.

From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir