tarsal bones , także: tarsals

Tarsal bones are present but reduced in size and form.

There must be better ways to do it now, maybe by regulating the growth of the tarsal bones during adolescence.

Cuboid bone, one of seven tarsal bones in the human foot.

In doing so, the nail would tear through the foot, eventually locking up against the tarsal bones.

The intertarsal articulations are the joints of the tarsal bones in the foot.

A bundle of ribs, and two paper sacks containing loose carpal and tarsal bones.

Much of the material of the tarsal bones seem to be similar to those of the genus Shansisuchus.

The talus, calcaneus, and navicular are considered the proximal row of tarsal bones.

In humans, the calcaneus is the largest of the tarsal bones and the largest bone of the foot.

Strictly speaking this ankle isn't a crurotarsal joint in the previously discussed sense, as it's situated between the two proximal tarsal bones.

The extra foot is composed of at least some metatarsal or tarsal bones and extra digits, though it is usually not complete.

Although they bear similarities to those of amniotes, the tarsal bones of diadectids are poorly ossified and loosely connected.

Excessive compression can cause, over time, the cartilage between the upper and lower surfaces of the lower tarsal bones to become compressed and eroded.

While earlier tetrapods possess several simple tarsal bones in their ankles, diadectids have a more complex astragalus formed from the fusion of these bones.

The carpus (wrist) and tarsus (ankle) of land vertebrates primitively had three rows of carpal or tarsal bones.

The blood supply of the foot then begins to infiltrate the tarsal bones, whilst the process of endochondral ossification sees cartilage become bone.

The tarsal bones of the ankle are arranged in proximal and distal groups somewhat like the carpal bones of the wrist.

Paused, frowning, at the next sentence in the autopsy report: Notably absent on X-ray are the fetus's right tibia, fibula, and tarsal bones.

This minimum movement occurs in the carpal bones of the hands and tarsal bones of the feet and also between the clavicles and sternum.

However, there is almost no difference between the tarsal bones of the earliest Cantius and latest Pelycodus, indicating that their arboreal, quadrupedal locomotion was probably primitive.

While this anatomy is reminiscent of small kangaroos and jerboas, suggesting a jumping locomotion, the structure of the tarsal bones hints at a specialization for terrestrial running.

The second largest of the tarsal bones, it is also one of the bones in the human body with the highest percentage of its surface area covered by articular cartilage.

The calcaneus, also known as the heel bone, is the largest of the tarsal bones and articulates with the cuboid bone anteriorly and the talus bone superiorly.

Proper foot manipulations require a thorough understanding of the anatomy and kinematics of the normal foot and of the deviations of the tarsal bones in the clubfoot.

The hock, or gambrel, is the joint between the tarsal bones and tibia of a digitigrade or unguligrade quadrupedal mammal, such as a horse, cat, or dog.