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Meanings of
fibula
in English
Russian
фибула
Portuguese
fíbula
Spanish
fíbula
Catalan
fíbula
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Ancient pin or brooch for securing clothing.
pin
brooch
Russian
фибула
Russian
малоберцовая кость
Portuguese
fíbula
Catalan
fíbula
Spanish
perone
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A leg bone next to the tibia.
calf bone
Russian
малоберцовая кость
Synonyms
Examples for "
pin
"
pin
brooch
Examples for "
pin
"
1
Yet others
pin
the blame on how the crisis has been managed.
2
She said it was hard to
pin
point people with extremist views.
3
Through the legs he stuck a similar
pin
in a similar fashion.
4
I said, 'The Austrian police are anxious to
pin
this on you.
5
Everybody wanted to
pin
a case file on you and forget you.
1
And what about your
brooch
-
the
brooch
which you dropped in the room.
2
That trap for the owner of the
brooch
was a neat idea.
3
But Malcolm only laughed and fastened the
brooch
in her white dress.
4
For luck, I pinned on a
brooch
my father had given me.
5
How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there; and her garnet
brooch
.
Usage of
fibula
in English
1
The tibia and
fibula
are the other two bones in the region.
2
Mariota suffered a fractured right
fibula
,
the Titans announced after the game.
3
Mack underwent surgery to repair a fractured
fibula
Thursday in Charlotte, N.C.
4
The right
fibula
was on the inside of the right tibia.
5
He also underwent surgery to repair a fractured
fibula
last year.
6
He suffered a broken
fibula
,
partial tendon tear, and required stitches.
7
After the race an x-ray revealed he had broken his left
fibula
bone.
8
After locating an osteometric board, I measured the right femur, tibia, and
fibula
.
9
Bayern Munich midfielder Owen Hargreaves has broken the
fibula
in his left leg.
10
The surgery to plate McNeely's
fibula
is scheduled for this Saturday or Sunday.
11
And I can drive spikes between your tibia and
fibula
to prove it.
12
It is specially designed for
fibula
wider distraction in mandible reconstruction.
13
Knott's tibia and
fibula
shattered from her knee to her ankle.
14
Head coach Mike Tomlin said after the game it was a broken
fibula
.
15
He'll then reconnect the
fibula
's
blood vessels to those in my upper leg.
16
It would appear he fractured his right hind tibia and
fibula
in the process.
Other examples for "fibula"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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fibula
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
right fibula
leave fibula
fracture fibula
broken fibula
proximal fibula
More collocations
Translations for
fibula
Russian
фибула
малоберцовая кость
Portuguese
fíbula
perónio
Spanish
fíbula
fibula
perone
peroné
Catalan
fíbula
peroné
Fibula
through the time
Fibula
across language varieties
United States of America
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