Tarsus
[tɑ:sәs]
解释:
(noun.) the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively.
艾德里安整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.
(n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
(n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
比利编辑
解释:
n. the part of the foot to which the leg is articulated:—pl. Tar′sī.—adj. Tar′sal relating to the tarsus or ankle.—ns. Tarsal′gia pain in the tarsus: a neuralgic affection of the foot from which persons walking much sometimes suffer; Tar′sipes a small Australian honey-sucking marsupial of the family Phalangistid about the size of a mouse.—adj. Tarsometatar′sal pertaining to the tarsus and the metatarsus.—n. Tarsometatar′sus the single compound bone of birds.—adj. Tarsotar′sal mediotarsal.
伯尼编辑
例句:
- And presently there arose a second great teacher, whom many modern authorities regard as the real founder of Christianity, Saul of Tarsus, or Paul. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Theodore of Tarsus was one of the earliest archbishops of Canterbury (669-690). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I didn't think you had experienced any complete conversion on the road to Tarsus, old Pablo, Robert Jordan thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
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