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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tibia
noun
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▪ Case No. 5: 58 year-old woman fell, sustaining a left ankle sprain and bruising over the ankle and tibia.
▪ Matt put me in a leg lock and clamped down until I feared my tibia would snap.
▪ The victim suffered a fractured tibia and a laceration.
▪ They include the levator and depressor of the trochanter, tibia and tarsus and the levator of the pretarsus.
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Tibia

Tibia \Tib"i*a\, n.; pl. Tibi[ae]. [L.]

  1. (Anat.) The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.

  3. (Antiq.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tibia

lower leg bone, 1726, from Latin tibia "shinbone," also "pipe, flute" (originally one of bone), in which sense it originally came into English (1540s). Of unknown origin. The Latin plural is tibiæ. Related: Tibial.

Wiktionary
tibia

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone 2 (context zoology English) A segment of an insect's leg. 3 A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

WordNet
tibia
  1. n. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: shinbone, shin]

  2. [also: tibiae (pl)]

Wikipedia
Tibia

The tibia (plural tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger and stronger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula), and it connects the knee with the ankle bones. The tibia is found on the medial side of the leg next to the fibula, and closer to the median plane or centre-line. The tibia is connected to the fibula by the interosseous membrane of the leg, forming a type of fibrous joint called a syndesmosis with very little movement. The tibia is named for the flute tibia. It is the second largest bone in the human body next to the femur. The leg bones are the strongest long bones as they support the rest of the body.

Tibia (video game)

Tibia is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by CipSoft. It is one of the oldest MMORPGs and was considered most noteworthy in its early years; however, with the development of MMORPGs, its popularity has grown much slower than other MMORPGs. It was first released in January 1997. It is a free game which is open to the public, though players have the option to pay a fee in order to upgrade to a premium account, granting special in-game benefits, including additional areas to explore, access to vocation promotions, and extra spells.

Tibia (disambiguation)

The tibia is a bone in the leg of humans and other vertebrates.

Tibia may also refer to:

  • Tibia (gastropod), a genus of sea snails
  • Tibia (instrument) or aulos, an ancient Greek and Roman wind instrument
  • Tibia (organ pipe), a sort of organ pipe that is most characteristic of a theatre organ
  • Tibia (video game), a 1997 MMORPG
  • Tibia, a segment of the arthropod leg
Tibia (organ pipe)

A tibia is a sort of organ pipe that is most characteristic of a theatre organ.

Tibia pipes are generally made of wood, stopped, from 16' (Occasionally 32') with the top octave pipes (above 1/2', or 6" made of metal, stopped, and pipes from 1/4', 3" made of metal and open.

The mouth is cut very high, and the pipes have little harmonic development - the sound approaches that of a sine wave.

There is usually a tremulant on the wind for Tibia pipes - the increase and decrease of wind pressure gives "life" to the sound.

Tibia (gastropod)

'''Tibia ''' is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.

This genus was traditionally considered to be part of the family Strombidae, the true conchs and their allies. However, recent morphological as well as molecular studies indicate that these ("shinbone shells") should be recognised as a separate family, the Rostellariidae, and this is the way they are treated in the database WoRMS.

The recent species belong to three distinct genera, but several more genera are known from the fossil record.

Usage examples of "tibia".

In the latter also the fibula, which is anchylosed to the end of the tibia, articulates with the calcaneum or heel-bone, which is not the case with the simple-toothed rodents.

They played a mixture of instruments from Britain and the Continent, bone flutes and panpipes, harps and citharas and tibias, and their bright music drifted like smoke on the still air.

First I put the joint back in place, slipping the ridges of the tibialtarsal trochlea into the grooves at the distal end of the tibia as I had done so often in the anatomy lab at college.

The broken ends of the fractured tibia were badly displaced and we had a struggle to bring them into apposition before applying the plaster of paris.

Eugene Bertrand reported to the Anthropological Society of Paris that he found parts of a human skull, along with a femur, tibia, and some foot bones, in a quarry on the Avenue de Clichy.

In 1868, Eugene Bertrand reported to the Anthropological Society of Paris that he found parts of a human skull, along with a femur, tibia, and some foot bones, in a quarry on the Avenue de Clichy.

THE BONES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, sixty in number, are classed as follows: The Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsus, Metatarsus, and Phalanges.

The clavical, humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fibula, the bones of the metacarpus, metatarsus and the phalanges, are classed as long bones.

The right humerus, the right tibia and fibula, a refracture of the left tibia and a new one of the left ankle.

The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about the back and hips.

The pelvic bones appeared to be still joined, but the femur, tibia, and fibulas were tangled together in a heap, like bleached kindling.

He had been born in a town very distant from the sea, and he had set foot on a ship only at an advanced age, when—he said—his body was nothing but a withering of the cutis, a dim­ming of the sight, a besnotting of the nose, a whispering of the ears, a yellowing of the teeth, a stiffening of the spine, a wattling of the throat, a gouting of the heels, a spotting of the complection, a whitening of the locks, a creaking of the tibias, a trembling of the fingers, a stumbling of the feet, and his breast was all one purging of catarrhs amid the coughing of phlegm and the spitting of sputum.

The distance was at least fifty feet, a distance sufficient to arouse in even the most optimistic mind dismaying thoughts of fractured femurs and tibias.

There were no late-twentieth-century gadgets such the Single Photon Absorptiometer or scintillation detectors to estimate height based on the length of the humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, and fibula - the long bones of the arms and legs.

The tibia still has some incomplete regeneration about the medullary cavity but appears quite adequate for normal load-bearing function.