FIBULA (fibulae)

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Irregular inflected form: fibulae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fibula mean? 

• FIBULA (noun)
  The noun FIBULA has 1 sense:

1. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

  Familiarity information: FIBULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIBULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

calf bone; fibula

Hypernyms ("fibula" is a kind of...):

leg bone (a bone of the leg)

Holonyms ("fibula" is a part of...):

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

 Context examples 

A blood vessel arising from the popliteal artery that supplies blood to the head of the fibula and the front of the knee joint.

(Inferior External Articular Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The highest portion of the fibula that articulates with the patella.

(Head of the Fibula, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle in the lower leg and foot beginning at the fibula and ending with a tendon attaching to the distal surface of the great toe phalanx in order to flex the toe.

(Flexor Hallucis Longus, NCI Thesaurus)

The bony prominence on the outside of the ankle formed by the distal end of the fibula.

(External Malleolus, NCI Thesaurus)

Other structures of the knee joint include the upper part of the fibula, located below and parallel to the tibia, and the patella which moves as the knee bends.

(Knee Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.

(Ankle Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

The superior portion of the tibia that joins with the fibula, femur and patella at the knee joint.

(Head of the Tibia, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic or pathologic injury to the femur in which the continuity of the fibula is broken.

(Fibula Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle originating at the lateral condyle of the tibia and the upper portion of the anterior margin of the fibula and inserted at the dorsal surface of the proximal, middle and distal phalanges of the second, third, fourth, and fifth toes which controls their extension.

(Extensor Digitorum Longus, NCI Thesaurus)