TARSUS
\tˈɑːsəs], \tˈɑːsəs], \t_ˈɑː_s_ə_s]\
Definitions of TARSUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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(pl. TARSI), In anat. (a) that part of the foot which in man is popularly known as the ankle, the front of which is called the instep; it corresponds with the wrist of the upper limb or arm, and is composed of seven bones, viz. the astragalus, os calcis (heel) , os naviculare, os cuboides, and three others, called ossa cuneiformia; (b) the thin cartilage situated at the edges of the eyelids to preserve their firmness and shape: in entom, the last segment of the leg. It is divided into several joints, the last being generally terminated by a claw, which is sometimes single and sometimes double: in ornith. that part of the leg (or properly the foot) of birds which extends from the toes to the first joint above; the shank; the single bone of this portion corresponds with the tarsus and metatarsus conjoined.
By Daniel Lyons
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The bony structure constituting the greater part of the arch of the foot, consisting of the os calcis, the astragalus, the scaphoid, the cuboid, and the three cuneiform bones.
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The so-called cartilage of the upper eyelid (tarsal cartilage), which forms the skeleton or support of the lid. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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