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tarsus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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 "to make dry;" Latin terra "land, ground, soil," torrere "dry up, parch;" see terrain). The connecting notion is the bones of the "flat" of the foot (Greek tarsos podos).
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 eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control. 4 (context zoology English) In insects and other arthropods, any of a series of articulations in the true foot; the last joint forming the foot in spiders.
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)]
Wikipedia
Tarsus may refer to:
In geography:
- Tarsus, Mersin, ancient and modern city in Turkey
- Tarsus (West Syrian Diocese), a Syrian Orthodox archdiocese, attested between the seventh and thirteenth centuries
- Tarsus Waterfall, on the outskirts of the city
- Berdan River, also known as the Tarsus River, which flows past the city
- Tarsus (crater), an impact crater on Mars
In biology:
- Tarsus (skeleton), a cluster of articulating bones in each foot
- The lower leg of a bird
- Tarsus (eyelids), elongated plate of dense connective tissue in each eyelid
- The distal segment of an arthropod leg
Other uses:
- Tarsus (1948–1960), a Turkish Maritime Lines ship formerly the USS Harry Lee (APA-10)
- Tarsus American College, private high school in Tarsus, Turkey
- Tarsus Academy, a fictional school in the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War
In tetrapods, the tarsus is a cluster of seven articulating bones in each foot situated between the lower end of tibia and fibula of the lower leg and the metatarsus. The tarsus articulates with the bones of the metatarsus, which in turn articulate with the proximal phalanges of the toes. The joint between the tibia and fibula above and the tarsus below is referred to as the ankle joint.
In humans the largest bone in the tarsus is the calcaneus, which is the weight-bearing bone within the heel of the foot.
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 a lower and upper part making up the palpebrae.
The city of Tarsus was a Syrian Orthodox archdiocese, attested between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Nearly twenty Syrian Orthodox metropolitans of Tarsus are mentioned either by Michael the Syrian or in other Syrian Orthodox narrative sources. The archdiocese is last mentioned towards the end of the thirteenth century, and seems to have lapsed during the fourteenth century.
Tarsus Crater is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 23.12° N and 40.26° W. It is 18.55 km in diameter and was named after the city of Tarsus, Turkey.
Usage examples of "tarsus".
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.