fibula
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He sustained a fractured right fibula and tibia, a displaced ankle and torn ligaments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Liverpool striker Alexander Isak faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after the Premier League champions revealed he had surgery on an ankle injury that includes a fibula fracture on Monday.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
When Loyola High defensive lineman Andrew Hilton broke his fibula and suffered ligament damage to his ankle during the opening week of football practice last August, things looked bleak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
It fell on her, breaking her tibia and fibula – bones in her lower leg.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
An infection spiked up and he was rushed to the emergency room downtown where a two-inch section of his tibia and fibula was removed.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
His meticulously assembled forest of skulls, femurs, tibiae, and fibulae isn’t sacrilege; it’s a memorial.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
He was born with unformed fibulae, and his legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2017
Born without fibulae, the now 39-year-old’s lower legs were amputated when she was very young.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2015
Known as the “Blade Runner,” Pistorius is a double amputee who wears curved carbon fiber blades where his fibulae ought to be.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2012
Once invented, the bilateral spring became almost universal, and its introduction serves to divide the whole mass of ancient fibulae into an older and a younger group.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
Born without fibulas, he has both legs amputated below the knees before turning one year old.
From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023
Photograph: Michael Buholzer/Reuters History of a champion athlete turned murderer 1986 Oscar Pistorius is born in Sandton, South Africa, with no fibulas.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2016
Mr. Pistorius was born without fibulas and had his lower legs amputated when he was 11 months old.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2014
Pistorius was born without fibulas, one of the two long bones in the lower leg.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 24, 2012
There was a woman living in Bavaria, under the observation of Buhl, who had congenital absence of both femurs and both fibulas.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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