Talus
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Talus (which is Latin for ankle-bone) may refer to:
- The talus bone, a bone connecting the leg to the foot
- Talos, a rock-throwing giant made of bronze in Greek mythology
- Scree, small broken rock found on mountain slopes and at the base of cliffs
- Talus, in architecture, the slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top, to resist the pressure of the earth behind it.
- Talus, a planet in the fictional Star Wars universe
- The Tallus, a device employed in the Marvel comic book Exiles
- Talus was also a rock band of which Glenn Danzig was a member, prior to starting The Misfits