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
Retrotarsal, rē-trō-tar′sal, adj. being behind the tarsus of the eye.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Thence it passes towards the tarsus and divides into two fasciculi, internal and external, which are continued by tendons.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Pal′ma, the palm: the enlarged proximal joint of the fore tarsus of a bee.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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
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