talus
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The astragalus.
A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.
A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
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Although the specific construction of the talus supported a close relationship between artiodactyls and cetaceans, the question of whether the even-toed ungulates are paraphyletic was not answered.
An Omnicom page shows a letter from Loomis to Cham, sharing his assessment of the new headquarters on Talus.
Our first order of business was to set up the lines, which involved hacking our way through bushes with machetes, and running kilometers of wire through buckbrush and talus slopes.
For Knightfall, Hammil took on the role of Talus, a Templar veteran of the Crusades.
It is theorized that dice developed from the practice of fortunetelling with the talus of hoofed animals, colloquially known as " knucklebones ", but knucklebones is not the oldest divination technique that incorporates randomness.
Fractures of the talus bone are rare in other sports but account for 2% of snowboard injuries – a lateral process talus fracture is sometimes called "snowboarder's ankle" by medical staff.