TIBIALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tibialis mean? 

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

1. either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIBIALIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

musculus tibialis; tibialis; tibialis muscle

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

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tibialis"):

tibialis anterior; tibialis anticus (a muscle running from the tibia to the first metatarsal and cuneiform bones)

tibialis posterior; tibialis posticus (a deep muscle of the leg)

Holonyms ("tibialis" 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)