tarsi your ankle, or one of the seven small bones in your ankle. City (pop., 1997: 190,184), south-central Turkey. It is located near the Mediterranean Sea coast. Settled from Neolithic times, it was razed and rebuilt 700 BC by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Later, Achaemenid and Seleucid rule alternated with periods of autonomy. In 67 BC it was absorbed into the new Roman province of Cilicia, becoming its principal city. It was the site of the first meeting in 41 BC between Mark Antony and Cleopatra and was the birthplace of St. Paul. It remained a leading industrial and cultural centre through the early Byzantine period. It came under various powers in the 10th-15th centuries and passed to the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century. Modern Tarsus is a prosperous agricultural and cotton-milling centre
the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively
A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate
The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones
the chief city of Cilicia It was distinguished for its wealth and for its schools of learning, in which it rivalled, nay, excelled even Athens and Alexandria, and hence was spoken of as "no mean city " It was the native place of the Apostle Paul (Acts 21: 39) It stood on the banks of the river Cydnus, about 12 miles north of the Mediterranean It is said to have been founded by Sardanapalus, king of Assyria It is now a filthy, ruinous Turkish town, called Tersous (See PAUL )
(pl tarsi): Last section of insect legs which are made up of several segments called tarsomeres (see below)
cartilage-like stiffening layer extending across the eyelid tear trough deformity - deeper than normal hollow between the nose and lower eyelid temporal - located towards the temple side of the eyelids (lateral) transconjunctival - surgical entry into the eyelid by going through the back of the lid transcutaneous - surgical entry into the eyelid by going through the skin