In the human body, the tarsus (pl.: tarsi) is a cluster of seven articulating bones in each foot situated between the lower end of the tibia and the fibula...

Look up Tarsus, tarsus, or tarsi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tarsus may refer to: Tarsus (skeleton), a cluster of articulating bones in each foot...

The human skeleton of an adult usually consists of around 206 bones, depending on the counting of sternum (which may alternatively be included as the manubrium...

Tarse may refer to: a penis a male falcon the tarsus (skeleton) Tarsus, Mersin Tarse, a legendary eastern kingdom: the homeland of the Three Magi the homeland...

Tarsal artery (disambiguation) Tarsal bone Tarsal glands tarsus (skeleton) (skeleton) tarsus (eyelids) (eye) superior tarsal muscle (eye) Tarsalia (bee)...

BC – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher. Athenodorus was born in Canana, near Tarsus (in modern-day Turkey); his father was Sandon. He was a student of Posidonius...

metacarpus. Plantar ligament: in the hind leg, runs down the lateral side of the tarsus, attaches to the calcaneus, 4th tarsal, and 4th metatarsal bones. Injury...

inserts on the plantar surfaces of metatarsals 1 and 2. It acts to flex the tarsus and rotates the paw laterally. It is innervated by the peroneal nerve. Long...

fracture – in which one or all of the metatarsals are displaced from the tarsus Cuneiform fracture - Due to the ligamentous support of the midfoot, isolated...

fits into a socket in the calcaneum (the “crocodile normal” tarsus); only in the skeletons of the ornithosuchid pseudosuchians a peg on the calcaneum fits...

clubfoot with twisting of the metatarsals, inward and upward-turning foot, tarsus varus and inversion adducted appearances. Furthermore, they classically...

sacs often form air pockets within the semi-hollow bones of the bird's skeleton. The bones of diving birds are often less hollow than those of non-diving...

another type of archosaur. However, with the discovery of an almost complete skeleton and skull in 1988, Herrerasaurus has been classified as an early saurischian...

whereas those of the metacarpus do. The corresponding part of the foot is the tarsus. The carpal bones allow the wrist to move and rotate vertically. The eight...

America during the Early Jurassic, about 186 million years ago. Three skeletons were discovered in northern Arizona in 1940, and the two best preserved...

set of features that are characteristic of the averostran or tetanuran tarsus (ankle and foot). The interpretation put forward by Rauhut and Pol suggests...

except for their heads and a small portion of the neck, as well as the tarsus and feet. There have been feathers found belonging to this species, revealing...

limitation of motion and this brings about the onset of pain. The bones of the tarsus are the rear most bones in the adjacent diagram: calcaneus, talus, navicular...

The carpus (wrist) and tarsus (ankle) of land vertebrates primitively had three rows of carpal or tarsal bones. Often, some of these have become lost or...

multiple names: authors list (link) "Chapter 32, FRACTURE AND LUXATION OF THE TARSUS AND METATARSUS "Textbook of Small Animal Orthopaedics" written by Charles...

not to be confused with Antioch in Pisidia, to which Barnabas and Paul of Tarsus later travelled. Between 252 and 300 AD, ten assemblies of the church were...

tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is the fusion of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia. A similar structure also occurred in the Mesozoic Heterodontosauridae...

fossils, including a block of six skeletons found in the Cutler Formation of New Mexico, and a pair of fully grown skeletons from the Tambach Formation of...

; Heckert, A.B.; Rinehart, L.F.; Zeigler, K.E. (2005). "The carpus and tarsus of the Early Permian synapsid Sphenacodon ferox (Eupelycosauria: Sphenacodontidae)"...

bones of A. medium but that he had fossils of its skull, neck, tibia, and tarsus bone, adding to the hind foot evidence that he described years prior. He...

Mongolian for 'visible hero') in 1994. Five skulls, one molar, and one skeleton with a skull are known; the last is the genus' most complete specimen....

species A. mumak had different specializations: some characteristics of the tarsus, such as the great plantar tubercle on the navicular and a well-developed...

distinct. Tarsiers also have long hind limbs, owing mostly to the elongated tarsus bones of the feet, from which the animals get their name. The combination...

joint between the tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus. The joint inside the tarsus occurs also in some reptiles. It is worth noting here that the name "thick...

mammalian tarsus (ankle bones) and metatarsal bones (foot). Despite this, the tarsometatarsus of birds is often referred to as just the shank, tarsus or metatarsus...