hypotarsusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)səs

名詞

hypotarsus (plural hypotarsi)

1. (anatomy) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
   • 2005, Robert B. Payne, The Cuckoos‎, pages he foot of the cuckoo is also distinctive at the proximal end of the tarsometatarsus, where tendons from the leg to the toes pass through two bony canals in the hypotarsus. The two canals are arranged side by side in cuckoos. Other zygodactyl birds have a differently structured hypotarsus. In woodpeckers two bony canals are arranged radially, owls have no bony canals, and in parrots the hypotarsus varies with a single canal in Aratinga and Ara, a single canal with a partial division into two radial canals in lories:

関連する語

• hypotarsal

参照

• “hypotarsus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• phytosaurs