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

It was later determined to be a human tibia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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 diagnosed with a complex tibia fracture in her left leg.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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

The genus, or rather family, of Epeira, is here characterized by many singular forms; some species have pointed coriaceous shells, others enlarged and spiny tibiae.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

Ears: organs of hearing, as on the first tibiae or on the first abdominal segment of some Trichoptera.

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

Under the stimulus of a straw, I see her legs move a little, especially the lower joints, the tibiae and tarsi.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Some of the largest vertebrae, tibiae, and femora equal in magnitude the most gigantic previously known, while others are not larger than the corresponding bones of the living apteryx.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

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