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Like all the short bones, those of the tarsus are composed of a mass of spongy tissue surrounded by a thin and papyraceous layer of compact.
Although both groups exhibit very similar chondrogenic patterns of the tarsus, only the amphibian pattern is preserved through osteogenesis.
Apart from a fragmentary metatarsal, the tarsus and pes are not preserved in this specimen.
Before experiments began, we took standard morphometrics of wing chord length, culmen, tarsus, tail length, and body mass.
In this pattern the tarsus of diadectids most closely approximates the lacertilian mesotarsal joint in structure and probable function.
A wedge of skin, orbicularis, and tarsus is removed parallel to the lid margin.
Preserved bones of the tarsus include the astragalus, calcaneum, and medial centrale.
A cockroach leg is made up of a number of distinct segments, arranged along the proximo-distal axis in the order coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus.
In addition to the pretarsus, tarsus, tibia and femur, insects have two proximal segments not shown in the figure.
For both species, body size traits included mean tarsus length, mean flattened wing chord, tail length, and culmen length.
The popliteal occasionally provides a small saphenous artery that courses with the vein of the same name and the sural nerve to the tarsus.
Hen flea infestations significantly reduced nestling body mass, tarsus and wing length, and the number of young fledged by the hosts.
Body condition was calculated as the ratio between the weight at capture and cube root tarsus length.
This can be shown electrophysiologically by accelerating the tarsus at small amplitudes and variable frequency.
Body mass was measured using a spring balance, and tarsus length by a caliper.
At 2000 h every day, chicks were weighed on the precision balance, and their tarsus length measured by using a pair of calipers.
Actually, it turns out that the ferrungulate tarsus is a fairly apt study for the understanding of ankles, assuming that one is apt to study such things at all.
The left forelimb deviated outwardly at the carpus and was very swollen at the tarsus.
Hold a closed band behind the tarsus, and compare the space on each side of the band.
An influential contribution is that of Szalay, who linked Australian taxa to one group among the South American radiation, based on structure of the tarsus.
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Removal of the talus is an alternative operation to resection of the tarsus, and may yield equally good results.
Thence it passes towards the tarsus and divides into two fasciculi, internal and external, which are continued by tendons.
In the dog and the cat, it is inserted into the ligamentous apparatus of the tarsus, or into the base of the second metatarsal.
To the tarsus succeeds the metatarsus, whose form reminds us very much of that of the metacarpals.
The soles of the feet are covered with hairs upon the tarsus and metatarsus.
Probably the first marks for identification of a specimen might be the monomerous tarsus and the single claw.
The male palpi are long, with large tarsi and palpal organs and a long hook on the outer side of the tarsus.
In x-notata the palpus is as long as the cephalothorax, and the tarsus and palpal organ small and round.
In montana the palpus is still shorter, the tibia thicker, and the tarsus and palpal organ larger.
The little tarsus is like the tarsus of the hind leg with its claws and its pulvillus, only, of course, it is smaller.
Union of the navicular and cuboid, and sometimes the ectocuneiform bone, of the tarsus.
The distal row of the tarsus has four bones, three cuneiforms and a cuboid.
In the tarsus the cuboid articulates with both the calcaneum and the astragalus, which is remarkably flat.
There are only ten tail-feathers, and the scutellation of the tarsus is like that of Xenicus.
Some authors consider it to be a tarsal bone, and describe it under the name of the coronoid bone of the tarsus.
And thus her mind drew on to that supper at tarsus when she drank the pearl.
They are distinguished from their allies by having the lores covered with feathers, and the tarsus reticulated back and front.
The pes consists of two parts, the ankle or tarsus and the foot.
She is not dead at tarsus as she should have been by the savage Dionysia.
The carpus and tarsus of Amphibamus are as yet undecipherable.
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