The tarsus is sensitive on all sides; but the three toes are sensitive only on their outer surfaces.
If the tarsus of the tendril comes into contact with a twig, it goes on slowly bending, until the whole foot is carried quite round, and the toes pass on each side of the tarsus and seize it.
The sensitiveness is not much developed; for a slight rubbing with a twig did not cause the tarsus or the toes to become curved until an hour had elapsed, and then only in a slight degree.
Both the tarsus and toes can seize well hold of sticks.
The straight leg or tarsusis longer than the three toes, which are of equal length, and diverging, lie in the same plane.
Even the middle part of the tarsus is sensitive to prolonged contact, as soon as the tendril has arrived at maturity.
The whole tendril, namely, the tarsus and the three toes, are likewise sensitive to contact, especially on their under surfaces.
The three divergent toes are shorter relatively to the tarsus than in the former species; they are blunt at their tips and but slightly hooked; they are not quite equal in length, the middle one being rather longer than the others.
The little tarsus is like the tarsus of the hind leg with its claws and its pulvillus, only, of course, it is smaller.
Yes, Mollie, there is a bone in your leg called the tibia, and you have a tarsus in your foot.
The guilt of Saul of Tarsus was completely covered by the blood of Christ; and his lofty religious pride and boasting was swept away by a sight of Jesus, and Saul found his place at the pierced feet of Jesus of Nazareth.
Saul of Tarsus stood, as it were, on the loftiest height of the hill of legal righteousness.
If ever there was a man upon this earth whose history illustrates the truth that "salvation is by grace, without works of law," Saul of Tarsus was that man.
Matthias, Saul of Tarsuswho came to be known as Paul the Apostle, Barnabas, and others, were ordained by those previously invested with the Holy Priesthood.
Coins of Tarsus exhibit the effigy on the pyre, which seems to be composed of a pyramid of great beams resting on a cubical base.
The city of Tarsus in Cilicia is said to have been founded by a certain Sandan whom the Greeks identified with Hercules; and at the festival of this god or hero an effigy of him was burned on a great pyre.
At Tarsus apparently the custom was still further softened by burning an effigy instead of a man; but on this point the evidence is not explicit.
The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsuswhich articulates with the tibia at the ankle.
Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.
In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when he had found, he brought to Antioch.
But Paul said to him: I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
If the skin of the tarsus splits in boring, it shows that the wire used is either too large or crooked.
As a rule, use wire large enough, at least, to support the weight of the body and skin without bending, but wire one-half the size of the tarsus is generally large enough to do this.
When we view Saul of Tarsus making havoc of the church in Judea, and soliciting permission to pursue its scattered members even into exile, we consider him as a determined enemy of Christ.
When trembling, astonished Saul, of Tarsus enquired, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
Saul of Tarsusspeaks of himself as a chief of sinners "because he persecuted the church of God;" yet he obtained mercy!
They are distinguished from their allies by having the lores covered with feathers, and the tarsus reticulated back and front.
Like the Swallows the tarsus of the Terns is remarkably short, so that on the ground the birds seem awkward, and rarely attempt to walk far; on the sea, however, they are quite at home and swim well.
The birds in this sub-family are distinguished from all others by having the tarsus scutellated or plated in front, and by having only a narrow membrane attached to the hind toe.
Diodorus of Tarsus=, a scholar of the preceding, monk and presbyter at Antioch, was afterwards bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, and died in A.
Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia contested the principles of Origen, while Gregory of Nyssa in his Proemium in Cant.
The male palpi have a very large black tube coiled one and a half turns under the tarsus (fig.
The male palpi are large and black at the ends, the tarsus oval and pointed, and the tibia short and as thick as long.
The tarsus has a projection at the base that covers the tibia.
The male palpi have the tarsus large and round, supported by a wide and very complicated tibia.
In general shape it is rounder than in the next species, and the angle at the base of the tarsus is less prominent.
The tarsus is small and narrow, not as long as the patella and tibia.
The upper tibial process is a simple point extending along the outer side of the tarsus for a quarter of its length.
The tibia is dark, and the tarsus is dark at the base and white toward the tip.
The tibia and tarsus of the front legs are marked with a narrow red ring at the base and a wider ring near the end of each joint.
At the mating time the males, as they approach the females, hold the front legs extended sidewise and lifted a little from the ground, with the tibia nearly horizontal and the tarsus turned downward.
The legs are slender and tapering, the tarsus and metatarsus not more than half as thick as the tibia.
The patella and tibia are brown, and the tarsus is brown, with white hairs on the upper side.
The tarsus is half longer than wide and pointed at the end.
The palpi of the female have the tibia and tarsus a little thickened.
The tarsus is oval and narrow and the palpal organ small.
The male palpi have the tarsus long, with a pointed process that extends backward over the tibia between two processes on that joint.
The instruments by which a fly effects this purpose are two suckers connected with the last joint of the tarsus by a narrow infundibular neck, which has power of motion in all directions, immediately under the root of each claw.
In some coleopterous genera the tarsus seems absent or obsolete.
The most common number of joints in the tarsus is from two to five; but the Phalangidae have sometimes more than forty.
These joints are very visible in the legs of caterpillars of Lepidoptera, and their tarsus is armed with a single claw[441].
The city of Tarsus resounded with their groans and complaints.
He and Mr. Ainsworth, however, differ as to the route which they suppose Cyrus to have taken betweenTarsus and Issus.
This remarkable scene at Tarsus illustrates the character of the Greek citizen-soldier.
Accordingly Cyrus, ascending without opposition the great pass thus abandoned, reached Tarsus after a march of four days, there rejoining Menon and Epyaxa.
Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.
Capitulum and scutum; ventral aspect of capitulum; coxae; tarsus 4; spiracle; genital and anal grooves.
Legs not modified into clinging hooks; tibia and tarsus very long and slender; tibia without thumb-like process; antennae five-segmented.
The tarsus of the fourth pair of legs has a number of curved setae in a single series.
Ocelli present, if rarely absent in the female, then the tarsus has two segments; or if with three tarsal segments, the wing membrane with one or two cells.
Second joint of the hind tarsus with basal scale-like process and dorsal excision (fig.
Saul was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, which was one of the university cities of that day.
There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as atTarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.
At the city of Tarsus in Cilicia is a river named Cydnus, in which gouty people soak their legs and find relief from pain.
Saul (born in Tarsus in Cilicia, at the beginning of the Christian epoch, and belonging to the tribe of Benjamin) had a very remarkable nature.
Two Judaeans, both coming from countries where the Greek language was spoken, Saul of Tarsus (known as Paul) and Jose Barnabas of Cyprus, declared their intention of proselytizing the heathen.
Roger Bacon and Grosseteste (I say nothing of the earlier age, of Theodore of Tarsus and Bede) were men whose work in this direction has hardly met with full appreciation as yet; and later on we gave Erasmus a welcome and a home.
This bird is described from an imperfect pelvis, a perfect left tibio-tarsus and a femur.
The tibio-tarsus and tarso-metatarsus are relatively shorter and stouter than in Dinornis, the latter being shorter than the femur, which is usually stouter and relatively shorter than in Megalapteryx.
Milne-Edwards had only a single tibio-tarsus of this form and described this bone, but refrained from giving it a specific name, though he stated it was probably a small Bubo, in the hopes of getting more material.
There are only ten tail-feathers, and the scutellation of the tarsus is like that of Xenicus.
The tibio-tarsus and tarso-metatarsus are relatively shorter and thicker than in Anomalopteryx, but less stout than in Pachyornis; the distal extremity of the tibio-tarsus is not inflected.
In the tibio-tarsus the cnemial crest rises well above the head; the extensor groove is separated by a considerable interval from the inner border of the bone.
This is, as regards size, one of the more variable forms in the tarso-metatarsus, while the tibio-tarsus is remarkably constant.
The tibio-tarsus is almost invariably 35 inches in length, while the tarso-metatarsus varies from 17.
The tibio-tarsus is very short, with the shaft curved outwards, the distal extremity markedly inflected, and the fibular ridge much shorter than in the other genera.
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