The larger and stronger of the two bones below the knee of the leg of a biped or hind limb of quadruped.
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Examples for "shin "
Examples for "shin "
1 Gallas is recovering from a shin injury; Desailly has a back problem.
2 This was his thigh; this his shin ; this his ankle and foot.
3 They will, for example, scream for passes or adjust their shin pads.
4 Pounding heart, wavery vision, vague feeling of nausea, burning shin , aching hands.
5 Bend the left knee and raise that shin perpendicular to the floor.
1 I looked for the line 'car door' and the column ' tibia fracture'.
2 The tibia and fibula are the other two bones in the region.
3 Body weight and tibia length were not altered in mice receiving rNRG1.
4 The tibia is shorter, too, than the tibia of the hind leg.
5 An asymmetrical raised patch on the anterior midshaft of the right tibia .
1 Any baseball player knows how it hurts to be hit on the shinbone .
2 I gave them a moldy shinbone , and the ogres sailed away and left you-
3 Or when you're holding a knife you've just made out of your own shinbone .
4 Twelve inches remained uncovered, and exposed that much of shinbone , sharp, blue, and narrow.
5 The tibia, or shinbone , was in better shape.
1 Well, if this was a field of battle, I should say 'twas the shankbone of a man; no more, no less.
2 For Starkad excellently judged the man's deserts, and bestowed a shankbone for the piper to pipe on, requiting his soft service with a hard fee.
1 The blade was keen, and the guy's shin bone was right there.
2 Then, in 2009, the team found a human tibia, or shin bone .
3 But that shin bone is sticking right through the flesh of his leg.
4 We did our best, but that shin bone didn't heal right.
5 The prominent shin bone , so invariably found in the Africans, is not, however, seen.
6 The handle was black and smooth, shaped like a shin bone and cool beneath my palm.
7 She sustained a nasty fracture to her shin bone as a result, her counsel Michael Byrne said.
8 The only objection to his theory is, Uncle Ned's shin bone curved backward, this man's curves forward.
9 Marriner though clearly thought intent was irrelevant and the contact with the shin bone both reckless and dangerous.
10 Osgood-Schlatter disease is inflammation of the bone and cartilage at the top of the tibia or shin bone .
11 The body part was inside a white sock and black running trainer, with its shin bone still attached.
12 With half a shin bone or some hard flank steak;
13 Had I not stepped back as I did he might have broken my shin bone , for he wore heavy boots.
14 I looked forward to a summer without pennyroyal on the mantelpiece or witch hazel on the shin bone , and was content.
15 It wasn't particularly sore at the time but it did leave quite a bruise on the front of my left shin bone .
16 If the rock had hit an inch to the left and missed my shin bone the wound would have been possibly inches deep.
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