Tarsus

[tɑ:sәs]

Definition

(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.

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Definition

(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.

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Definition

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.

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