Tarsus Definition

tärsəs
tarsi
noun
The human ankle, consisting of seven bones between the tibia and metatarsus.
Webster's New World
A group of bones in the ankle region of the hind limbs of tetrapods.
Webster's New World
The small plate of connective tissue stiffening the eyelid.
Webster's New World

Tarsometatarsus.

Webster's New World
The tarsometatarsus.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Tarsus

Noun

Singular:
tarsus
Plural:
tarsi

Origin of Tarsus

  • From Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsos), a "flat surface" used for drying.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin from Greek tarsos ankle ters- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tarsus Sentence Examples

  • As an exegete Theodoret belongs to the Antiochene school, of which Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia were the heads.

  • Indeed, one of the oldest leaders of the school, Diodorus of Tarsus, was himself among the strictest ascetics.

  • Of the outer eyelids, the lower alone is movable in most birds, as in reptiles, and it frequently contains a rather large saucer-shaped cartilage, the tarsus palpebralis.

  • Here Tancred, followed by Baldwin, turned into Cilicia, and began to take possession of the Cilician towns, and especially of Tarsus - thus beginning, it would seem, the creation of the Norman principality of Antioch.

  • At Marash, half way between Caesarea and Antioch, Baldwin, who had meanwhile wrested Tarsus from Tancred, rejoined the ranks; but he soon left the main body again, and struck eastward towards Edessa, to found a principality there.

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