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Bone, shin: The larger of the two bones in the lower leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The shin bone is anatomically known as the tibia.
"Tibia" is a Latin word meaning both shin bone and flute. It is thought that "tibia" refers to both the bone and the musical instrument because flutes were once fashioned from the tibia (of animals).
Incidentally, "fibula" is also from the Latin and means a clasp or brooch. The fibula was likened by the ancients to a clasp attaching it to the tibia to form a brooch.
Bone, shin: The larger of the two bones in the lower leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The shin bone is anatomically known as the tibia. "Tibia" is a Latin word ...
shin bone injury Shin bone injury . The shin is always a good target for being hit and a direct blow can be very painful. Sometimes the bone itself can be damaged as there ...
bone (bÅn) 1. the hard, rigid form of connective tissue constituting most of the skeleton of vertebrates, composed chiefly of calcium salts. 2.
A broken or fractured shinbone (tibia) is the most common long-bone injury. Several types of fractures can occur, ranging from the hairline stress fractures common in ...
Noun 1. shin bone - a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg shin cut of meat , cut - a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass 2. shin bone - the ...