Word: taluses
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...operation that takes a half-hour, Waugh makes an incision in the front of the ankle, saws off the top of the talus, or anklebone, and cuts a wedge-shaped opening in the bottom of the tibia, the larger of the two lower leg bones. He then inserts the metal into the tibia and fastens the dome to the talus. Each part is held in place with a special bone cement. The tension of the leg and ankle tendons holds the joint together and keeps the T in contact with-but able to move on-the dome. Most...
rock to rock. Awake in the talus...
...Quickly, both foot and leg stump were carefully cleansed. An anticoagulant salt solution was forced through the foot's major arteries to flush small blood clots and other circulatory blocks. The lower ends of the two leg bones, the tibia and fibula, as well as some of the talus or anklebone, were trimmed, and two stainless-steel nails were driven up through the heel into the tibia (see diagram). With his ankle fused, Liang's right leg was shortened...
From sundown to sundown the devout turned their talus-wrapped shoulders and bowed heads toward the East in dutiful prayer. Then, as the ram's horn sounded Yom Kippur's end, Yorkville Jews scurried back to their stores for reassurance. On the front windows of more than 50 of them they found scratched in six-inch letters the word...
...most of Newfoundland, however, the hills and high tablelands are deeply carpeted with a mantle of angular frost-broken and lichen-crusted material; transported boulders are not seen, or are small and conspicuously weathered; and the cliffs have very high talus-slopes, such as that of Hannah's Head on the lower Humber. The largest area in which the surface mantle is undisturbed and the rock-walls covered with a rotted crust that has never been scraped off is on the western side of the island, embracing the Long Range of mountains and the adjacent foreland...