shinbone
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Vonn suffered a complex fracture in her left tibia or shinbone, the larger and stronger of the two bones in the lower leg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The condition, which strikes many young athletes, causes painful inflammation of the growth plate just above the shinbone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Croatia international Gvardiol, 23, recently had surgery after breaking his shinbone in the 1-1 draw with Chelsea, while Portugal centre-back Dias, 28, is out for about four to six weeks with a hamstring injury.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
In 1994, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her team found more than 80 fossils of teeth, jaws, a partial arm, and shinbone at two sites near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
Christopher laughed, and the squirrel ran up his shinbone to his knee.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
As I ambled past groups doing yoga and vacationing families lounging on the grass, pain started to radiate through my ankles and up my shinbones before settling uncomfortably in my hips.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
The team searched for lesions, or indicators of stress, on the shinbones of the pandemic victims.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023
To gauge the subjects’ physical condition at the time of death, the researchers looked for lesions on the shinbones that can reveal problems such as malnutrition, injury, or illness.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 9, 2023
It’s been quite a journey for Masters, who was born in 1989 with legs that were different sizes and missing shinbones.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
Siddhartha stood there unmoving, his arms folded; the moon shone on his bare shinbones.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
