Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several muscles of the crus, or lower leg, and foot, in relation with the tibia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot
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Examples
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They happen because your calf muscles overpower the anterior tibialis, and power walking will correct that.
Improve Your Balance And Help Heal Sprained Ankles | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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When you dorsiflex, youre contracting your shin muscle tibialis anterior.
ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009
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If you use clipless pedals and strive to "spin to win", you get all the hamstrings and tibialis activity you could ever want.
The New Spin: From Fixed to Broken BikeSnobNYC 2009
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For instance, if you have shin splints, you can take time off to heal them and then spend time strengthening the tibialis anterior shin muscle by walking on your heels.
ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009
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I began regaining sense of comprehension, but getting weaker, losing more weight, and the right tibialis anterior muscle started getting numb along with my right foot.
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I began regaining sense of comprehension, but getting weaker, losing more weight, and the right tibialis anterior muscle started getting numb along with my right foot.
A bad week for statins | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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To tone her waitress muscles-the extensor hallucis, the tendo calcaneus, the tibialis anterior-Ellen Cherry walked to work the next morning.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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Contraction can be induced in the extensor longus hallucis, extensor longus digitorum, and peroneus brevis; but reaction is doubtful in the case of the tibialis anticus and peroneus longus.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Branches supply the following muscles -- obturator, semimembranosus (adductor magnus), biceps femoris (triceps abductor femoris), semitendinosus (biceps rotator tibialis), lateral extensor
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The quadriceps group of muscles is assisted by the anterior digital extensor (extensor pedis) peroneus tertius and tibialis anticus (flexor metatarsi) muscles.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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