Tarsus definitions

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A fibrous plate that supports and shapes the edge of the eyelid.
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The section of the vertebrate foot between the leg and the metatarsus.
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The bones making up this section, especially the seven small bones of the human ankle.
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The tarsometatarsus.
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The distal part of the leg of an arthropod, usually divided into segments.
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A city of southern Turkey near the Mediterranean Sea west of Adana. Settled in the Neolithic Period, it was one of the most important cities of Asia Minor under Roman rule (after 67 bc ). Saint Paul was born in Tarsus.
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The human ankle, consisting of seven bones between the tibia and metatarsus.
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The small plate of connective tissue stiffening the eyelid.
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A group of bones in the ankle region of the hind limbs of tetrapods.
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The fifth segment from the base of an insect leg.
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City in S Turkey, near the Mediterranean: in ancient times, the capital of Cilicia & birthplace of the Apostle Paul.
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A fibrous plate that supports and shapes the edge of the eyelid.
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The section of the vertebrate foot between the leg and the metatarsus.
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The bones making up this section, especially the seven small bones of the human ankle.
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The tarsometatarsus.
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The distal part of the leg of an arthropod, usually divided into segments.
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The group of seven bones lying between the leg and the metatarsals and forming part of the ankle.
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The group of bones lying between the leg and metatarsals in the hind feet in some vertebrates, such as dinosaurs and birds.
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A fibrous plate that supports and shapes the edge of the eyelid.
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The lower part of the leg of an arthropod, usually divided into segments.
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(anatomy) The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus.
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(anatomy) Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot.
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(anatomy) The superior or inferior tarsal muscle of the eyelid, responsible for sympathetic control of the eyelid.
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(zoology) In insects and other arthropods, any of a series of articulations in the true foot; the last joint forming the foot in spiders.
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Origin of tarsus

From Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsos), a "flat surface" used for drying.

Sentence Examples

  • Carpus and Tarsus, II.

  • As an exegete Theodoret belongs to the Antiochene school, of which Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia were the heads.

  • Indeed, one of the oldest leaders of the school, Diodorus of Tarsus, was himself among the strictest ascetics.

  • Morse, " On the Carpus and Tarsus of Birds," Ann.

  • Of the outer eyelids, the lower alone is movable in most birds, as in reptiles, and it frequently contains a rather large saucer-shaped cartilage, the tarsus palpebralis.

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