Sentence examples for a talus from inspiring English sources

He pointed to some caves on a talus slope, which were largely sealed off about seventy years ago.

On a talus slope at the foot of the middle peak are huge boulders on which have been carved Olmec reliefs in La Venta style.

They sit atop a talus field, a steep-sloping junkyard of broken rock that also holds cliffs that are 1,000 feet or more above the valley floor.

Rising above the desert plain southeast of Lake Amadeus, Mount Conner is flat-topped and horseshoe-shaped and reaches to 2,500 feet (760 metres) above sea level; its lower 500 feet (150 metres) are covered by a talus (scree) slope, while the highest 300 feet (90 metres) are sheer cliffs.

(C) Photograph of a talus deposit area where coral boulders were distributed.

Full weight bearing is allowed immediately using a talus orthopedic shoe for 5 weeks, which is generally sufficient time to obtain complete consolidation of the osteotomies.

The lower Chattian Castro Limestone, previously considered as a fringing reef, is reinterpreted as a distally steepened ramp with a distal talus induced by a paleo-escarpment in the substrate.

Dear anklet (ankle bracelet) and toe ring wearers, On behalf of the world, I want to inform you that we're all a little perplexed as to why you'd use accessories to accentuate what is arguably the least sexy part of the human body (unless you have a foot fetish or you like a big talus, and you cannot lie).

Wei et al. propose that the deformity "results from excessive dorsally directed forces at the talonavicular joint in patients with no dorsiflexion at the ankle secondary to a flattop talus" [ 8].

The AP and lateral X-rays of the ankle are also used to assess the shape of the talar dome; a flat top talus signifies a congruent incongruity at the ankle joint, which makes the deformity unsuitable for correction purely through soft tissue releases.

Differs from Caenopithecus lemuroides Rütimeyer, 1862 (Egerkingen γ [26]) in being smaller and having upper molars that lack a mesostyle (postcranial skeleton of Caenopithecus is unknown except for an isolated talus; see below).