tibia

At the Women's European Championship that followed, Bronze was instrumental in England retaining the trophy, starting every game despite suffering a fractured tibia on the eve of the tournament.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

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

Legs and underside ferruginous, bases of abdominal segments green, as are the tips of the femora and all the tarsi: front edge of tibiae of fore-legs without teeth, hind tibiae moderate.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by John Lort Stokes

Legs rather thick, the outer of the two tarsal claws of the third pair of legs, cleft at the end, anterior tibiae externally sub-tridentate.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by George Grey

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 John. B. Smith

V. vulgaris often has black spots on the tibiae, which are wanting in germanica.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham

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

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

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

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