TIBIA
\tˈɪbiə], \tˈɪbiə], \t_ˈɪ_b_i__ə]\
Definitions of TIBIA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
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A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
By Oddity Software
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The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
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A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
By Noah Webster.
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The second longest bone of the skeleton. It is located on the medial side of the lower leg, articulating with the FIBULA laterally, the TALUS distally, and the FEMUR proximally.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Shin-bone; the inner and larger of the two bones of the leg, articulating with the femur, fibula, and astragalus.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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In anat., the larger of the two leg-bones, so called from its supposed resemblance to an anc. flute.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The inner and larger of the leg-bones between knee and ankle; the joint of an insect leg between femur and tarsus.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A long bone, the larger of the two of the leg, on the anterior and medial side of which it is placed. Its upper extremity bears two concave surfaces covered with cartilage, separated by the crucial spine, for articulation with the femur, and bears on each side two prominences, the lateral and medial tuberosities. The shaft is three-sided, smaller in the middle than at either end, its medial surface being subcutaneous. The lower extremity is enlarged transversely and projects downward on the inner side as the medial malleolus, presenting a concave surface for articulation with the astragalus; laterally is a surface covered with cartilage for articulation with the fibula, and posteriorly are grooves for the tendons of the tibialis posticus and flexores digitorum pedis and pollicis longi. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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