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

This proceeds towards the tarsus, but previously it passes between the tibia and fibula.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

The bones of the tarsus are not seven in all animals; they are fewer in ruminants and solipeds.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Tarsometatar′sal, pertaining to the tarsus and the metatarsus.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various