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- noun Plural form of
tibia .
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Examples
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Ancestral ball-rolling behaviour shared by other canthonine species is abandoned, and the head, hind tibiae and pygidium of D. valgum are modified for novel functions during millipede predation.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Around us, I noticed with a shiver, lay femurs and tibiae, fi nger bones and ribs.
Going Coastal 2006
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Around us, I noticed with a shiver, lay femurs and tibiae, fi nger bones and ribs.
Going Coastal 2006
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The pretty college graduate is now lying in bed, clearly still in considerable pain three days after a doctor sawed through the flesh and bone below her knee to insert what looks an awful lot like knitting needles through the length of her tibiae.
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By plotting the lengths of femora, tibiae and metatarsi onto ternary diagrams, Daniel Elvidge and David Unwin found that pterosaurs occupied a tight, compact group of data points within morphospace, and a ‘data cloud’ similar in size to that occupied by bats.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The dinosaur remains - which include a skull, both thigh bones and both tibiae shin bones - were unearthed from rocks in the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, US.
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Vita ejus Puellae, amore septuagenarius senex usque ad insaniam correptus, multis liberis susceptis: multi non sine pudore conspexerunt senem et philosophum podagricium, non sine risu saltantem ad tibiae modos.
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When the os tibiae, having made a wound at the knee, has protruded through the skin, whether the dislocation be outward or inward, in such a case, if the bone be reduced, death will be even more speedy than in the other cases, although speedy also in them.
On The Articulations 2007
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Several birds were found by Dr. Kirk to have marrow in the tibiae, though these bones are generally described as hollow.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The sheep and goat remains consist almost exclusively of hind limb elements (pelves, femora, tibiae, and anklebones).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 3 2003
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