tibia

Example Sentences

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Teammate Le Roux Malan dislocated his ankle and snapped his tibia in a sliding tackle against New Zealand and underwent surgery within three hours with local anaesthetic while awake.

From Seattle Times

Then, aged just 12, he broke his tibia and fibula in a youth derby.

From BBC

Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon says a fractured tibia has kept him out since July.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s not like he had a traumatic tibia fracture, like getting hit by a truck. So, it’s really semantics.”

From Los Angeles Times

Strangest of all are the bird’s hyper-elongated hind legs, in which the lower leg bone — the tibia — is twice as long as the thigh bone.

From Scientific American