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tibia

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The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.

A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

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Alex Smith’s courageous comeback continues when he makes his first NFL start since breaking his right tibia and fibula on Nov. 18, 2018. Source: Internet

Also tibia pipes of pipe organs have nearly sinusoidal waveforms and can be combined in the manner of additive synthesis. Source: Internet

Bryant, who tragically passed away Sunday morning, took to Instagram shortly after Hayward gruesomely dislocated his ankle and fractured his tibia mere minutes into his regular-season debut with Boston. Source: Internet

•Britt Baker Promo – HIT: I’m glad to see Britt Baker back on TV despite her broken tibia. Source: Internet

Christina Salas, a UNM engineer, holds a model of a fractured tibia. Source: Internet

Certainly in their morphology they are not jointed, and so lack the five segments (coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus) of thoracic insect legs. Source: Internet

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