单词 | metatarsus |
释义 | metatarsusn. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. The group of bones (five in humans, often fewer in quadrupeds) lying between the tarsus (ankle) and the phalanges (toes); the part of the foot or leg containing these bones. In a bird: the bone which corresponds to tarsus and metatarsus together (the tarsometatarsus). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > bones of foot > [noun] navicular?a1425 metatarsus?c1425 heel bone1516 astragalus?1541 bonket1552 cube-bone1615 die-bone1634 os calcis1634 foot bone1658 tarsus1676 pterna1684 talus1684 navicular bone1696 astragal1728 calcaneum1728 cuboid bone1829 cuboid1836 metatarsal1837 metapodium1844 tarso-metatarsal1851 arch1858 intermedium1878 tarsal1881 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > legs > bones of metatarsus1682 talus1684 tibia1826 tarsus1828 suffrago1842 tarso-metatarsal1851 tarso-metatarsus1854 boot1864 tibiotarsus1883 metatarse1894 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 72 The foot forsoþe haþ tharsim and meta tharsim. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vii. ii. 479 The joyning of..the Tarsus to the Metatarsus. 1682 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 5. 147 Sixty three large Scales, reaching up all along his [sc. the Oestridge's] Foot before, or before those Bones which answer to the Metatarsus. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 140 This last has two Surfaces at the fore-part, whereby 'tis articulated with the two utmost Bones of the Metatarsus. 1788 Encycl. Brit. I. 695/2 The metatarsus is made up of five bones, whereas the metacarpus consists only of four. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 484/1 Gamba, a technical term in Mammalogy, applied by Illiger to the elongated metacarpus or metatarsus of the Ruminants and Solipeds. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 7 In the Jerboa, among the rodents, the three middle metatarsi form but a single bone. 1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 10 The covering of the metatarsus is usually ‘scutellated’. 1917 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 47 379 Is it possible from a study of the teeth, the complete radius, tibia and metatarsus,..to decide to which of the ancient and modern members of the Equidæ the horses represented in the Ipswich deposits are most intimately related? 1937 Jrnl. Nutrition 14 155 The symptoms [of perosis in poultry]..are gross enlargement of the tibial-metatarsal joint, twisting..of the proximal end of the metatarsus, and slipping of the gastrocnemius muscle from its condyles. 1994 Esprit de Corps (Ottawa) Aug. 40/1 I was a mess: shrapnel in bowel and bladder, buttocks shredded, and smashed metatarsus in my left foot. 2. Chiefly Entomology. In an insect: (a) the basal segment of a tarsus (basitarsus), esp. when much developed; (b) the tarsus of the hind (metathoracic) leg. In an arachnid: the segment of a leg between the tibia and tarsus. ΚΠ 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. xv. 494 [The bee] next seizes one of the laminæ of wax with a pincer formed by the posterior metatarsus and tibia. 1859 Philos. Trans. 1858 (Royal Soc.) 148 900 The sharp scythe-shaped pollex folds down upon the margin of the metatarsus. 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 402 Tarsus with no rudimentary depression for auditory hairs, usually bearing a number of hairs like the metatarsus and tibia, e.g. [the spider families] Territelariæ, Dysderidæ. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xii. 182 At the junction of the tibia and metatarsus of the first or prothoracic leg on the inner (ventral) side is found the antenna cleaner. 1969 R. F. Chapman Insects ii. 36 The pollen..collects on the pollen press between the tibia and metatarsus. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Spider Spiders with a cribellum also have a comb..on the metatarsus of the fourth leg. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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