Definitions for tibia

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tibia tib·i·a

Spelling: [tib-ee-uh]

IPA: /ˈtɪb i ə/

Tibia is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in tibia (abiit).

Definitions for tibia

noun

1. Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
2. Zoology. a corresponding bone in a horse or other hoofed quadruped, extending from the stifle to the hock. (in insects) the fourth segment of the leg, between the femur and tarsus.

Origin of tibia

First recorded in 1685-95, tibia is from the Latin word tībia literally, reed pipe

Examples for tibia

Pollex: a thumb: the stout fixed spur at inside of tip of tibia.

She bit off his left front tarsus and consumed the tibia and femur.

An x-ray two hours later confirms my hunch: my tibia (the big bone behind the shin) is snapped clean in two.

But think of gradation, even now manifest, (tibia and Fibula).

Coronula: a circle or semicircle of spines at the apex of the tibia.

The tibia was shorter than in any known race and stouter than in most.

Gonytheca: articulating surface of femur to which the tibia is joined.

Separation of the lower epiphysis of the tibia is not common.

The prognosis of fracture of the tibia, as a rule, must be unfavorable.

The tibia Plena is the most powerful and weighty of all the tibia tribe of stops.