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Bone whose name means "clasp" in Latin
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fibula
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Word definitions for fibula in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "clasp, buckle, brooch," from Latin fibula "clasp, brooch," related to figere "to fasten, fix" (see fix (v.)). In reference to brooches, the modern English word mostly is used in archaeology. As "smaller bone in the lower leg" from 1706, from a Latin ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fibula \Fib"u*la\, n.; pl. Fibul[AE] . [L., clasp, buckle.] A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibul[ae], without a robe to clasp. --Wordsworth. (Anat.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. (Surg.) A ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: calf bone ] [also: fibulae (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. 2 An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
Usage examples of fibula.
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.
He had proceeded to beat Bissonette with the bat all across his body, fracturing bones in both his arms, his fibula, his patella, his coxae, five ribs, and his skull, leaving a five-inch dent in the side of his head.
There is a groove in the fibula just below the knee where the lateral popliteal nerve passes close against the bone.
I hissed as one of the soldiers made a grab for me, tearing my tunica from the fibula that held it at the shoulder so that it fell, leaving one breast bare.
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.
I could not imagine a more graceful curve than that of the os femoris, and there was just that due gentle prominence in the rear of the fibula which goes to the conformation of a properly proportioned calf.
They suggested carving the shinbones, the fibulas of this human product I am, shaping the bones and grafting them to build me, build the product, a new jawbone.
The pelvic bones appeared to be still joined, but the femur, tibia, and fibulas were tangled together in a heap, like bleached kindling.
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.
His only clothing was a golden rectangle of cloth wound about his waist and pinned by a simple gold fibula.
Nerves that are particularly vulnerable to this include the ulnar nerve, which runs through the funny-bone channel in your elbow, and the peroneal nerve, which runs through a similar channel at the top of the fibula near the knee.
Abel Black, foretopman, starboard watch, a perfectly ordinary cracked fibula (had stumbled over a misplaced bucket in the dark) was on the point of bursting.
Starlight slanting through the entrance showed him a cross section of skulls, splintered tibiae and fibulae, ribcages like lightless lanterns.