tibia
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈtɪbiə/
- Specialized
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tibia
- Typically, toddlers' fractures involve the tibia or calcaneus.
- tibia and fibula
- proximal tibia
- crest of the tibia
So and then on this end, this end of the femur is connected to your tibia and it makes your knee.
- So and then on this end, this end of the femur is connected to your tibia and it makes your knee.
- And mechanics is simply things like it's minutiae down to how long your femurs are relative to your tibia or, or other things like this is bio mechanics.
Examples
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Fractured tibia about five inches below the patella.
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She does have a slight fracture across the tibia and fibula of her left leg.
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- I broke my tibia.
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Yeah, I think you fractured your tibia.
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At this level, the image shows the cross sections of both the tibia and fibula.
Academic text (1997) -
You have a compound fracture of the tibia in both legs, and the fibula in the left leg is fractured too.
Fiction book (1990) -
After the accident, the doctor confirmed that she had broken her tibia.
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The athlete underwent surgery to repair a fracture in her tibia.
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He felt intense pain in his lower leg, realizing he had injured his tibia during the fall.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A position of the lower leg where the shin tilts inward so the knees are closer than the ankles
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tibia comes from the Latin word tibia, which meant a 'flute' or pipe and also the shinbone, and people sometimes made pipes from leg bones, so a helpful way to remember tibia is to imagine the shin as a hollow tube you could blow into. So tibia today means the larger bone in the lower leg that runs from the knee to the ankle.