Tarsus

·noun The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

II. Tarsus ·noun 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.

III. Tarsus ·noun A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals;

— called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.