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What is a tarsus?

What is a tarsus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus.
  2. (anatomy) Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot.
  3. (anatomy) 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. (zoology) In insects and other arthropods, any of a series of articulations in the true foot; the last joint forming the foot in spiders.
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Although both groups exhibit very similar chondrogenic patterns of the tarsus, only the amphibian pattern is preserved through osteogenesis.
At 2000 h every day, chicks were weighed on the precision balance, and their tarsus length measured by using a pair of calipers.
This can be shown electrophysiologically by accelerating the tarsus at small amplitudes and variable frequency.
In this pattern the tarsus of diadectids most closely approximates the lacertilian mesotarsal joint in structure and probable function.
Before experiments began, we took standard morphometrics of wing chord length, culmen, tarsus, tail length, and body mass.
Apart from a fragmentary metatarsal, the tarsus and pes are not preserved in this specimen.

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