tarso-

1. a combining form of tarsus:

   tarsometatarsus.

Example Sentences

The toes and tarso-metatarsus are usually featherless and are covered either with granular structures or with well-formed scales.

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In Gallinaceous birds the tarso-metatarsus bears a bony outgrowth which is sheathed in horn and forms a spur.

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The distal tarsals fuse with the second, third and fourth metatarsals, forming a compound bone, the tarso-metatarsus.

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Allied to Aquila, from which it is distinguished by the ulna being relatively shorter and the tarso-metatarsus stouter.

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The tarso-metatarsus is either long and slender or short and wide, and its anterior surface may or may not be grooved.

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