Definition of Tarsos
Tarsus (8), a city of great antiquity and interest, the ancient
capital of Cilicia, now in the province of Adana, in Turkey in Asia, on
the Cydnus, 12 m. above its entrance into the Mediterranean; legend
ascribes its foundation to Sennacherib in 690 B.C.; in Roman times was a
famous centre of wealth and culture, rivalling Athens and Alexandria;
associated with the meeting of Antony and Cleopatra and the deaths of the
emperors Tacitus and Maximinus; here St. Paul was born and notable Stoic
philosophers; in the hands of the Turk has decayed into a squalid
residence of merchants busy with the export of corn, cotton, wool, hides,
&c. In winter the population rises to 30,000.
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Tar"sus (?), n.; pl.
Tarsi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the flat of the foot, the
edge of the eyelid. Cf. 2d Tarse.] 1.
(Anat.) (a) 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. (b) A plate of dense
connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; --
called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
2. (Zoöl.) The foot of an insect or a
crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
Tar"sus (?), n.; pl.
Tarsi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the flat of the foot, the
edge of the eyelid. Cf. 2d Tarse.] 1.
(Anat.) (a) 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. (b) A plate of dense
connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; --
called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
2. (Zoöl.) The foot of an insect or a
crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (anatomy) The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus.
- (anatomy) Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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