tibia

They include a few isolated sauropod teeth, scattered bones likely from a sauropod, and two finds near Knysna: the theropod tooth discovered earlier and part of a tibia.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026

Vonn suffered a complex tibia fracture and other major damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

“Basically, I had a complex tibia fracture. I also fractured my fibular head, my tibial plateau — just kind of everything was in pieces,” she said.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

She was airlifted off the piste and taken to hospital in Treviso, where she was diagnosed with a "complex tibia fracture" in her left leg.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

They remembered my looking for the double flute, the tibiae pares, some years ago.

From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

Foramina: small openings in the body wall: in Orthoptera,; the auditory organs on the anterior tibiae.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

They abound in the Lepidoptera: one of the most extraordinary is that certain male butterflies have their fore-legs more or less atrophied, with the tibiae and tarsi reduced to mere rudimentary knobs.

From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Some of the closed leaves contained no prey, but in one there was a rather large beetle, which from its flattened tibiae I suppose was an aquatic species, but was not allied to Colymbetes.

From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

She said that, because of the rampant theft of some of the femurs, tibias and skulls in the past, the bones were now cemented together.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025

She heightens the sense of otherworldliness by employing unusual materials, including horse tibias and cigarette butts.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2020

Some think it has to do with skeletal structure: female tibias tend to slope backward more at rest, leaving more room to accelerate as they land from a jump.

From Slate ● May 4, 2012

And Lee carefully packed the bones, femurs, and tibias really straight, skull in the middle, with pelvis and clavicle surrounding it and ribs curving on either side.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

I learned that insects are arthropods and that they have tibias too!

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper