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
On the posterior limbs it is developed on the back of the superior extremity of the internal surface of the canon, towards the inferior part of the ham—that is, the tarsus.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Scutell′iform, scutellate; Scutellig′erous, provided with a scutellum; Scutelliplan′tar, having the back of the tarsus scutellate.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In other quadrupeds, the articulations which bind together the bones of the tarsus possess a little more freedom of movement.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
To the tarsus succeeds the metatarsus, whose form reminds us very much of that of the metacarpals.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
