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Meaning of "tarsus"

tarsus is a noun that refers to the part of the foot in vertebrates that includes the ankle and heel bones
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  • The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
  • A group of small bones in this part of the foot. The seven bones of the human tarsus form the ankle and upper part of the foot.
  • The shank or tarsometatarsus of the leg of a bird or reptile.
  • The true foot or the fifth joint of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, typically consisting of several small segments and ending in a claw.

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The tarsus has three segments tarsomeres.
Legs are cut off automatically at the tarsus.
Tarsus was enclosed by a pair of concentric defense walls.
Their feet and tarsus are bright orange.
They are collectively called the tarsus.
The bill and the tarsus were black.
No skin fold occurs along the tarsus.
The tarsus is and the tail is.
The upper part of its tarsus is feathered.
The tarsus is somewhat long for the proportions.
Males have a knob on the tarsus lower leg.
Hind tarsus of male represented by a bristle.
The corresponding part of the foot is the tarsus.
Tarsus is not the other end of the world.
The pattern of the scales at the tarsus is reticulate.

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Tarsus grew into a cultural and intellectual center.
It also has a slightly larger bill and tarsus.
The tarsus is also sometimes involved.
The anterior tarsus is dark.
Tarsus was just about to have the statue melted down.
Removal of hindquarter tarsus and stifle joints at meat level.
Tarsus joint removed or retained.
The tibia is fully feathered and the tarsus is long.
Replacements of tarsus defect by anallograft and direction of dermal displacement.
It acts to flex the stifle and extend the tarsus.
Tarsus in the middle ages.
Propulsion from the tarsus.
The tarsus is tethered at each end to the palpebral ligaments.
At the level of the tarsus.
The tarsus is quite flexible.
The foot was severed between the tarsus and the metatarsus.
The tarsus is fairly short for the size of the bird at.
A number of mostly repaired compression fractures in the tibia and tarsus.
The tarsus is composed of three articles having membranous footpads or pads.
Technical term is tarsus.
Tarsus and phalanges.
Adult length is around with a wing length of and a tarsus length of.
The tarsus is here.
The beak measures between and and the tarsus is in length.
The tarsometatarsus of birds is often referred to as just the tarsus or metatarsus.
The scutellum covers the abdomen and the tarsus is bipartite.
The wings and tarsus are shorter and the bill proportionally longer.
Inner and outer sides of thigh and tarsus bright orange.
Heritability estimates of tarsus length were similar for deprived and fed nestlings.
Saint paul of tarsus.
Tarsus is famous.
Art and tarsus.
The tarsal lesion the patient presented was of consistency similar to the tarsus.
Another characteristic feature the humped tarsus on the first leg pair.
There are also some morphological differences in the shape of the tarsus.

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