tibia
noun/ˈtɪbiə/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”).
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Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone.
- Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN:
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Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
- The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188:
- Derived terms
- basitibia, distitibia, foretibia, mesotibia, metatibia, midtibia, tibial, tibia valga, tibia vara, tibiiform