Crossword clues for tarsi
tarsi
- Take supplement primarily found in fish bones
- Low joints
- Tibia neighbors
- Low bones
- Tibias' neighbors
- They connect to tibiae
- Bones in the foot
- Seven bones of the human ankle
- Heel and ankle bones
- Bones of the foot
- Ankles, anatomically
- Some lower bones
- Some bones over a foot
- Some ankle bones
- Seven-bone clusters
- Seven bones down low
- Rita's scrambled ankles?
- Proximal foot bones
- Podiatrist's joints
- Neighbors of tibiae
- Bones of the human ankle
- Ankle bones
- Ankles, to anatomists
- Tibiae neighbors
- Tibia connectors
- Anklebones
- Foot bones in astir?
- Ankle supports
- Bones below the tibia
- Podiatrist's concerns
- Tibia connections
- Sets of foot bones
- Where the astragali are
- Foot parts
- Bones of the ankle and foot — sitar (anag)
- Groups of bones in this ratio passed to the left
- Sailor on island with son breaking bones
- Bones of soldiers? Cause of pain?
- Bones of the ankle and foot - sitar
- Betrays reversal for Bones
- Is traitor returning bones?
- Is rodent turning up bones?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tarsi \Tar"si\, n., pl. of Tarsus.
Tarsus \Tar"sus\, n.; pl. Tarsi. [NL., fr. Gr. ? the flat of the foot, the edge of the eyelid. Cf. 2d Tarse.]
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(Anat.)
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.
A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
(Zo["o]l.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of tarsus English)
WordNet
n. 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
[also: tarsi (pl)]
See tarsus
Usage examples of "tarsi".
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.
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.