TARSUS (tarsi)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: tarsi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tarsus mean? 

• TARSUS (noun)
  The noun TARSUS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: TARSUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARSUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tarsus" is a kind of...):

skeletal structure (any structure created by the skeleton of an organism)

Meronyms (parts of "tarsus"):

cuboid bone (the cube shaped bone on the outer side of the tarsus)

tarsal; tarsal bone (any bone of the tarsus)

Holonyms ("tarsus" is a part of...):

pedal extremity; vertebrate foot (the extremity of the limb in vertebrates)

Derivation:

tarsal (of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot)

 Context examples 

The first or medial wedge-shaped bone in the distal row of the tarsus.

(Internal Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

The third or lateral wedge-shaped bone in the distal row of the tarsus.

(External Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

The second wedge-shaped bone between the internal and external cuneiforms bones in the distal row of the tarsus.

(Middle Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

An oval-shaped bone of the tarsus found on the medial side of the foot.

(Navicular Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A bone on the lateral side of the tarsus between the calcaneus and the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones.

(Cuboid Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

The tarsus, metatarsus, and phalanges.

(Foot Bone, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)