Definitions for tarsals

tarsals tar·sal

Spelling: [tahr-suh l]
IPA: /ˈtɑr səl/

Tarsals is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in tarsals (aalrsst).

Definitions for tarsals

noun

  1. a tarsal bone, joint, or the like.
  2. a tarsal bone, joint, or the like.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the tarsus of the foot.
  2. pertaining to the tarsi of the eyelids.
  3. of or relating to the tarsus of the foot.
  4. pertaining to the tarsi of the eyelids.

Origin of tarsals

First recorded in 1810-20; tars(us) + -al1

Examples for tarsals

I was also glad to be reminded of teeth of camel and tarsal bones.

Some authors consider it to be a tarsal bone, and describe it under the name of the coronoid bone of the tarsus (Fig. 52, 2).

Shortening the eyelid by excision of a portion of the tarsal plate.

The palpal organ is outside the tarsal joint, as it is in the Mygales.

It is also able, in animals in which the tarsal articulations allow of the movement, to rotate the foot inwards.

The inferior surface of this extremity of the tibia is articular; and is in contact with one of the tarsal bones, the astragalus.

The condition of the tarsal fold is characteristic of the species.

In one of the legs determine the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsal segments.

The legs consist of six joints, the tarsal joints being large and two in number, and bearing a pair of terminal curved claws.

There are no Birds in which the tarsal bones remain separated and distinct throughout life.

The carpals, tarsals, metacarpals, and metatarsals are all free.

The third segment consists of nine small bones, the carpals of the wrist or the tarsals of the ankle.

The tarsals are ankylosed respectively to the tibia and metatarsals as in other birds.

The distal row of tarsals consists of three very small pieces of calcified cartilage.

Word Value for tarsals
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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