How To Use Talus In A Sentence
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Mythological characters that can be found on the periodic table include Tantalus (Tantalum, Ta) and his daughter Niobe (Niobium, Nb), and Promethius (Promethium, Pm).
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It was decided that Paul would be slid down the talus slope in a stokes litter, and we all pitched in to wrestle him down.
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Scrambling up the talus slope, the cave entrance is easy to spot on the right side.
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The Park is an important breeding area for the pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, white pelican P. onocrotalus, African fish-eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia, goliath heron Ardea goliath, rufous-bellied heron Butorides rufiventris, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, pygmy goose Nettapus auritus, collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and greyrumped swallow Pseudohirondo griseopyga.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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The stand is surrounded on both sides by steep slopes of sandstone talus.
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Another scientist reported grizzlies flipping over rocks to lick up army cutworm moths, a fat-bodied insect that hides by day in the high-altitude talus slopes in the Rockies.
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More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus, a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.
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The tarsal tunnel, which is located on the medial aspect of the posterior heel, is bounded by the flexor retinaculum and the medial surfaces of the talus and calcaneus.
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We clawed our way up a high mountain ridge covered in fine, shifting talus and on the far side got caught in a thunderstorm.
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Anchor suture devices were used to fix each tendon end to the talus or to the calcaneus at the original insertion of the ligaments.
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This tantalus is decorated with exquisitely carved exterior: on the top is a vignette comprised of three birds; a chick and the chick's parents.
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The house had been confiscated by Octavian during the wave of proscriptions in the aftermath of the Battle of Philippi from the family of Quintus Hortensius, the famous orator and great rival of Cicero who had amassed a fortune from his legal career and subsequently bequeathed the villa to his daughter Hortensia and son Quintus Hortensius Hortalus.
Caesars’ Wives
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In this series of operations, we used suture anchor devices to fix the free ends of the split patellar tendon to the talus and the calcaneus.
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Tantalus, ut famast, cassa formidine torpens; sed magis in uita diuum metus urget inanis mortalis casumque timent quem cuique ferat fors; nec Tityon uolucres ineunt Acherunte iacentem nec quod sub magno scrutentur pectore quicquam55 perpetuam aetatem possunt reperire profecto; quamlibet immani proiectu corporis exstet, qui non sola nouem dispessis iugera membris obtineat, sed qui terrai totius orbem, non tamen aeternum poterit perferre dolorem60 nec praebere cibum proprio de corpore semper; sed Tityos nobis non est in amore iacentem quem luctus lacerant: at quem exest anxius angor aut alia quauis scindunt cuppedine curae.
The Powers of Hell
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The primary fracture is usually longitudinal, passing through the facets for the talus and cuboid, and from this various secondary fissures radiate; the cancellated tissue is much crushed, so that the whole bone is flattened out.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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By the mathematical model, the movement of the talus segment is not necessary for the analysis.
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Glacial activity has had a major influence on the development of the landscape including notable geological features such as deep canyons or kursu valleys with nearly vertical walls over 100 m in height cut by melt water, sandurs (outwash plains), boulder hollows, tundra polygons, U-valleys, glacial cirques and moraines, talus accumulations, drumlins, weathering phenomena and palsa bogs.
Lapponian Area, Sweden
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At 35 deg C, not atypical of a sunny, summer day in the southwestern U.S. deserts, the western diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, shakes its rattle at frequencies up to 90 Hz.
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At his Street sale on the Tuesday, there is a pair of late 19th century baluster-shaped glass decanters with diamond-cut decoration (estimate 80 to 100) and two late Victorian oak tantalus, each with a very affordable estimate of 100 to 150.
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This eminence is concave above, and articulates with the middle calcaneal articular surface of the talus; below, it is grooved for the tendon of the Flexor hallucis longus; its anterior margin gives attachment to the plantar calcaneonavicular ligament, and its medial, to a part of the deltoid ligament of the ankle-joint.
II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus
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One group of species that are affected by a short growing season are talus-dwelling pikas (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae).
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The foot can be divided into three anatomic regions: the hindfoot or rearfoot (talus and calcaneus); the midfoot (navicular bone, cuboid bone, and three cuneiform bones); and the forefoot (metatarsals and phalanges).
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The resting took longer than the walking up the steep talus; and at 7.45: after a total of nine hours and a morning's work of two hours and a half, which occupied two in descending, we stood upon the corona or lip of 'Teyde.'
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Carstairs made a gesture towards the tantalus on the table.
Afterwards
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The physician identifies the space between the anterior border of the medial malleolus and the medial border of the tibialis anterior tendon and palpates this space for the articulation of the talus and tibia.
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The endangered Magazine Mountain shagreen is restricted to a single population found on the talus slopes of Magazine Mountain in the Ozark National Forest of Arkansas.
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These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests.
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The first genus is the Crotalus, or rattlesnake proper; the second is the Caudisona, or ground-rattlesnake; the third is the Ancistrodon, or moccasin, one of the species of which is a water-snake; and the fourth is the Elaps, or harlequin snake.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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When I finally stepped off the glacier onto the rock ridge - safe - my legs gave out from under me and I crumpled into the talus.
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The huanaco has never been a hybernating animal; but we must assume that, like the crotalus of the north, he had formed a habit of congregating with his fellows at certain seasons at the same spot; further, that these were seasons of suffering to the animal -- the suffering, or discomfort and danger, having in the first place given rise to the habit.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level.
The Complete Father Brown
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Streams have cut down into the limestone, but the gorge talus slopes are composed of colluvium with huge angular, slabby blocks of sandstone.
Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)
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In these situations the free face can extend to sea level and talus slopes will be absent.
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Supination of the foot and heal varus are corrected by abducting the supinated foot under the talus.
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He towed her across the room, paused beside his desk to thrust the signal flags into a drawer, then towed her farther — to the tantalus.
A Lady of His Own
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On the downhills, the big, widely spaced cornering knobs cut through deep dust, greasy mud, or loose talus.
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So he died and left behind him the ancient sceptre of Tantalus, and Aegisthus reigns in his stead, with the daughter of Tyndareus, Agamemnon's queen, to wife.
Electra
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In 2001, Carlos Ibáñez and his colleagues at the Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, suggested that the giant noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus), a rare European species occurring principally in the Mediterranean, may feed to a large extent on birds (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, 9700-9702).
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In contrast, the talus, or rock rubble, accumulated beneath cool, north-facing cliffs sometimes provides a very different kind of habitat, one that biologists call algific talus slope, or simply algific slope.
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Litters are born in the talus (rock piles) and weaned at 3-4 weeks after birth.
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There the long crest of the mountain broke sharply into a talus slope that, for the uppermost hundred meters, was almost a sheer cliff.
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Gravitational sediments can enter a cave system in the form of entrance talus material, colluvium, roof fall, or phreatic infiltrates.
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On the cart lay the following: proximal and distal portions of a left femur; a fragment of proximal left fibula; two fragments of left tibia, one proximal, the other distal, including the mangled malleolus; a portion of left pelvis extending from the pubic bone out into the blade; the talus, navicular, and third and second cuneiforms from a left foot.
Spider Bones
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Although most injuries to the talus can be successfully treated using traditional "first-line" therapies involving removal of dead tissue (called "debridement") and drilling, about one-fifth to one-quarter of people with ankle injuries need additional "second-line" restorative treatment to heal successfully, said lead author Matthew Mitchell, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Casper, Wyoming.
Medindia Health News
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Aruba also has two snakes: the cascabel (Crotalus thurissus unicolor), an endangered subspecies of rattlesnake, which does not use its rattle; and the Aruba cat-eyed snake (Leptodira bakeri).
Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub
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There was a tantalus and glasses on the top of a bureau, in the alcove to the left of the fireplace.
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Protection of algific talus slopes may help prevent the need for threatened or endangered status for these other snails and plants like the golden saxifrage.
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But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton, and his fifteen hundred pounds had exhausted his emergency fund and left him stranded at the Tantalus point where each day he saw the fresh-whipsawed boats departing for Dawson.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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In this series of operations, we used suture anchor devices to fix the free ends of the split patellar tendon to the talus and the calcaneus.
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In his mind's eye, Silk saw the talus he had killed; the shimmering discontinuity that was the blade of the azoth he had thought Hyacinth's had struck it below the eye, vaporizing metal and inflicting a mortal wound.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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Today, the cerastes survives as a genus of small, venomous vipers, like this crazy-ass Sidewinder Desert Viper, AKA the crotalus cerastes.
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Large taluses were added to the southwest and east sides to strengthen the outer wall and to make it earthquake resistant.
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This facet is frequently divided into two by a notch: of the two, the posterior, and larger is termed the middle articular surface; it is supported on a projecting process of bone, the sustentaculum tali, and articulates with the middle calcaneal facet on the under surface of the talus; the anterior articular surface is placed on the anterior part of the body, and articulates with the anterior calcaneal facet on the talus.
II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus
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After passing the Dollar Lakes, I hear the gurgle of a stream and then see Lamoille Lake, a shallow mountain tarn in a glacial bowl, with steep talus slopes cradling it.
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These include ostrich Struthio camelus, with white pelican Pelicanus onocrotalus, and greater and lesser flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber and P. minor on Lake Makat in Ngorongoro crater, Lake Ndutu and the Empakaai crater lake where over a million birds forgather.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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The talus is an architectural feature of some late medieval castles, especially prevalent in crusader constructions.
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We stepped gingerly onto the talus and then froze immediately when we heard yelling below: We were kicking rocks down onto other teams.
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Soil loss and runoff were evaluated over a 2-year period (2001-2002) on the taluses of terraces, in this zone of intense subtropical orchard cultivation.
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The more extreme of these were found within the fault zones separating adjacent basalt blocks, or were on north slopes below steep areas of consolidated talus.
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The groaning trees, tossed by the tempest, flung off showers of half-frozen flakes, that falling on her flaming cheeks failed to cool the fever of her suspense, while the yielding snow beneath her feet became a tantalus path, delaying her advance, and seeming to make more distant her suffering child.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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Attalus then sodomized the young man and invited all the dinner guests to do likewise.
Alexander the Great
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Behind a talus congenital triangular bone might not have existed which is possible free bone fragment of the fracture of astragalar tail.
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Northern woodsia occurs on rock cliffs, crevices, talus, and rocky, boreal woods in sun to partial shade.
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Periglacial activities included considerable slope instability in extraglacial areas, giving rise to gelifluctate, landslip and talus deposits.
Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia
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On the table, beside the lamp, was a tantalus and a glass, and a half empty syphon.
The Motor Pirate
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Julian went to the tantalus on the sideboard and poured himself a brandy to steady his nerves.
Sepulchre
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We treat disorders and deformities of the foot and ankle as well as clubfoot, vertical talus, hallux valgus, fractures and other trauma.
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The medial talocalcaneal ligament connects the medial tubercle of the back of the talus with the back of the sustentaculum tali.
III. Syndesmology. 7e. Intertarsal Articulations
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From the talus slopes nearby, she'll dig out army cutworm moths, which are about 60 percent fat.
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Many words come from Greek roots, but the roots for "tantalize" run all the way to Greek myth about a misbehaving son of Zeus named Tantalus.
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If the foot be forcibly extended, the head of the talus appears as a rounded prominence on the medial side of the dorsum; just in front of this prominence and behind the tuberosity of the navicular is the talonavicular joint.
XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 14. Surface Markings of the Lower Extremity
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After the feasting two famous biniou-players took up their places on the high talus that separated Ker-Eliane from Loch-ar-Brugg and played the farandol, the jabadao, and other country-dances for the peasants to dance to.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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For comparison, respirometric data were also obtained from Nyctalus noctula, a hibernating vespertilionid bat of similar body size and convergent foraging habits.
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Such darkly shadowed taluses under an open, light-filled firmament just waiting to ravenously warm every windblown, cascading, double-trunked forest shrub and errant piece of fossilized driftwood on the esker.
Sunday Salon: The Cover of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands
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Some scaling down was done, but this was legitimate based on Lucy's talus, said White.
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The first lockable Tantalus appeared around the mid 19th Century and was first seen in England around 1870.
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It was that of a talus larger than the largest Auk had ever seen; its virescent bronze face was cast in a grimace of hate, blinding yellow light glared from its eyes, and the oily black barrels of a flamer and a pair of buzz guns jutted from its open mouth.
Calde of the Long Sun
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The talus stopped and rolled backward, one of its extensile arms reaching for Incus.
Calde of the Long Sun
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Their typical breeding habitat is rocky talus and snowfields near sedge and grassy areas.
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Open sub-nival plant communities found in rock and talus substrates at the elevation of 3,000-4,000 m.
Caucasus mixed forests
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The ankle joint is formed by the articulation of the talus with the tibia and fibula.
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The malleoli tightly embrace the talus in all positions of the joint, so that any slight degree of side-to-side movement which may exist is simply due to stretching of the ligaments of the talofibular syndesmosis, and slight bending of the body of the fibula.
III. Syndesmology. 7d. Talocrural Articulation or Ankle-joint
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The Dumbocrats should run campaign adds featuring Pat Boone's Fruit-of-the-Loom commercials from the '70's and ask rhetorically, who is the "treat"? tantalus wrote on November 5, 2007 6: 41 AM:
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Kentucky GOP Pushing Anti-Gay Message In Final Days Of Gov Race
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Visually quartering the room, he located the tantalus, crossed to it, poured a large measure of brandy into a crystal glass.
The Perfect Lover
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Rain cascades down glacier carved valleys, gathering with the steady, icy melt to roam through the talus and house-sized boulders.
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The posterior or talocalcaneal articulation is formed between the posterior calcaneal facet on the inferior surface of the talus, and the posterior facet on the superior surface of the calcaneus.
III. Syndesmology. 7e. Intertarsal Articulations
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Pentelicus; at Patras, the cellae of the temple of Jupiter and Hercules, which are brick, although on the outside the entablature and columns of the temple are of stone; in Italy, at Arezzo, an ancient wall excellently built; at Tralles, the house built for the kings of the dynasty of Attalus, which is now always granted to the man who holds the state priesthood.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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In this series of operations, we used suture anchor devices to fix the free ends of the split patellar tendon to the talus and the calcaneus.
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We treat disorders and deformities of the foot and ankle as well as clubfoot, vertical talus, hallux valgus, fractures and other trauma.
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One popular theory postulates that a clubfoot is a result of intrauterine maldevelopment of the talus that leads to adduction and plantarflexion of the foot.
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The medial and lateral malleoli of the tibia and fibula stabilize the talus.
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On the sands of the Ténéré, there is almost no vegetation except for a few ephemeral annuals growing in response to scattered showers, mainly Tribulus longipetalus, Cyperus conglomeratus and Stipagrostis acutiflora.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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The most common primate recorded by Barber et al. was baboon Papio anubis, with lower numbers of patas and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus patas and C. tantalus), and low numbers of black and white colobus monkeys Colobus guereza in the dry forest.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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This tendon lies in a groove which crosses the posterior surface of the lower end of the tibia, the posterior surface of the talus, and the under surface of the sustentaculum tali of the calcaneus; in the sole of the foot it runs forward between the two heads of the Flexor hallucis brevis, and is inserted into the base of the last phalanx of the great toe.
IV. Myology. 8c. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Leg
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Carnivory in the greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) in Italy.
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Because of the bony articulation between the medial malleolus and the talus, medial ankle sprains are less common than lateral sprains.
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An alternative origin as a Large Igneous Province is less likely, as the volcanic rocks should be mainly relatively depleted subaqueous flood basalts rather than alkali basalts associated with slope talus.
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Above them, the rest of us began negotiating the long, steep descent through talus and boulder fields, sun shining down on our slow-moving band now that the storm had followed ‘the Lads’ downslope.
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Another gold occurrence referred to as the Hart Showing is situated 1 km southwest of the Bonanza Zone and consists of a small exposure of vuggy grey silica talus with variable amounts of scorodite alteration.
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A ewe, two lambs, and a young ram picked their way up a talus slope until they disappeared by blending perfectly into the surrounding rocks.
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Overrun with flowstone and alabaster talus and thick vines, it looked like a forest without the trees.
Deeper
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Mammals that are endemic to this dry forest ecoregion include the Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami), and the funnel-eared bat (Natalus tumidifrons).
Bahamian dry forests
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Crotalus comes from the Greek crotalon, a rattle or little bell; cerastes means horned, referring to the horns above its eyes.
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Green monkeys are also called vervets, tantalus, sabeus, and grivet monkeys.
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Along these exposed fault scarps, 500 m or more high, not only can the nature of oceanic crust be examined, but complex patterns of fault breccias, talus, and lavas can be discerned.
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Was Elsie Venner, poisoned by the venom of a crotalus before she was born, morally responsible for the "volitional" aberrations, which translated into acts become what is known as sin, and, it may be, what is punished as crime?
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For Tantalus the Greek designer, Dionysius Fotopoulis, uses a smoked glass backdrop, creating the illusion of greater space and a sense of the play being a reflection of all our lives.
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In front of this area is a large usually somewhat oval-shaped facet, the posterior articular surface, which looks upward and forward; it is convex from behind forward, and articulates with the posterior calcaneal facet on the under surface of the talus.
II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus
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Pronation of the foot will make the deformity worse by increasing the cavus and locking the adducted calcaneus under the talus, while the midfoot and forefoot are twisted into eversion.
