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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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A wedge of skin, orbicularis, and tarsus is removed parallel to the lid margin.
In this pattern the tarsus of diadectids most closely approximates the lacertilian mesotarsal joint in structure and probable function.
Body condition was calculated as the ratio between the weight at capture and cube root tarsus length.
Hen flea infestations significantly reduced nestling body mass, tarsus and wing length, and the number of young fledged by the hosts.
Although both groups exhibit very similar chondrogenic patterns of the tarsus, only the amphibian pattern is preserved through osteogenesis.
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.

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