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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The tarsi (tarsal plates) are two comparatively thick, elongated plates of dense connective tissue , about in length; one is found in each eyelid , and contributes to its form and support. They are located directly above the lid margins. The tarsus has ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the ankle bones collectively, 1670s, Modern Latin, from Greek tarsos "ankle, sole of the foot, rim of the eyelid," originally "flat surface, especially for drying," from PIE root *ters- "to dry" (cognates: Greek teresesthai "to be or become dry," tersainein ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ They include the levator and depressor of the trochanter, tibia and tarsus and the levator of the pretarsus.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus. 2 (context anatomy English) Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot. 3 (context anatomy English) A plate of dense connective tissue found in each ...

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THE BONES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, sixty in number, are classed as follows: The Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsus, MetaTarsus, and Phalanges.

And if we retrench the sleeve of the robe, as it is styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of Africa, the solid and compact dominion from Fargana to Aden, from Tarsus to Surat, will spread on every side to the measure of four or five months of the march of a caravan.

You see, sir,--and he went on with elytra and antennae and tarsi and metatarsi and tracheae and stomata and wingmuscles and leg-muscles and ganglions,--all plain enough, I do not doubt, to those accustomed to handling dor-bugs and squash-bugs and such undesirable objects of affection to all but naturalists.

Tarsus while Caesar himself had gone off in search of Pompey, and Calvinus and Sestius had marched to Armenia Parva to face Pharnaces.

All went well until he crossed the Euphrates at Zeugma, his destination Cilicia Pedia and then Tarsus.

As the successors of the tent-maker of Tarsus have for thirteen centuries been found on the side of aristocrats in every contest with plebians, so the piety of the East, controlled by men who live without labor, was and is on the side of the royal red man, who has a most royal contempt for plows, hoes and all other degrading implements.

In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost, that the insect has been described as not having them.

Duckweed Dugong, affinities of Dung-beetles with deficient tarsi Dyticus Earl, Mr.

Gripping a thread with her front tarsi, or fingers, she turns, one after the other, a number of back somersaults, like those of an acrobat on the trapeze.

She tugs a bit, drags her tarsi till she almost breaks the supporting threads.

That cumbersome black undercarriage and two pairs of elongated, limp tarsi and a pair of flaccid palps should by rights drag them back down to earth and thus evolutionary annihilation.

He visited Troy to do homage to his ancestor Aeneas, he went to Pessinus several times, and back to Byzantium, and anywhere, it seemed, save Pergamum and Tarsus, where Claudius Nero and Dolabella remained an extra year after all.

Whereabouts you can find troops I do not know, as I will have picked the whole of Anatolia bare, but I have left Marcus Junius Brutus in Tarsus under orders to start recruiting and training, so you should be able to acquire at least one legion when your commander reaches Cilicia.

Clodius the admiral set sail at the head of a flotilla rather than a fleet, some ten well-manned and properly decked biremes which neither Rex nor Clodius thought Metellus Nepos would miss when he turned up in Tarsus.

Thus it was that by the end of January the party arrived safely in Tarsus, having seen nothing en route save a few seaports and shipyards, and a great deal of sea.