(n.) The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.
(n.) The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
(n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(2) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(3) The crus has been elongation 8 cm by Ilizarov method in 9 years old boy and 5 cm elongation of the tibia has been achieved with the use of Bastiani method in 8 years old girl.
(4) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
(5) The patient described in this report has the classic findings of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in conjunction with tibia vara and irregular physes of the lower extremities.
(6) Two cases of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia treated by direct current stimulation are presented.
(7) In the control group, only the plates of A-W GC were implanted in the bilateral tibiae of 20 rabbits.
(8) The fetal tibia is found to be growing more intensively at its distal end.
(9) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
(10) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
(11) In the periosteum of the human tibia, the arterial blood supply shows a general sectorial angioarchitecture.
(12) Restraint produced regional losses of bone most obviously in the proximal tibia.
(13) Collagen fibrillogenesis was studied in tibiae of chick embryos, 9, 11, and 14 days old.
(14) Thereafter an account is given of development and morphology of the tibia with dyschondroplastic lesions (retained cartilages).
(15) We tested the effects of 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-(OH)2D3), 2 beta-(3-hydroxypropoxy)-1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (ED-71) and dexamethasone on osteocalcin mRNA levels in rat tibiae in vivo.
(16) The knee model is based upon a four-bar linkage comprising the femur, tibia and two cruciate ligaments.
(17) The right tibia received Simplex particulate cement polymer and the left leg functioned as a prepared, but nonimplanted, control.
(18) By means of 51-Cr labeled red cells and 59-Fe labeled resin particles, the blood volume and blood flow rate in the tibiae were calculated simultaneously as a percentage of the values in the contralateral tibiae.
(19) In all cases, the results were bigger for measurements in the laboratory coordinate system compared with the tibia coordinate system, because the movement of the lower leg was included in the measurements in the laboratory coordinate system.
(20) The resulting fraction was homogeneous, active in the rat tibia bioassay and had a similar isoelectric point, molecular weight and amino acid composition to mammalian growth hormone.
Tibial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tibia.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.
(n.) A tibial bone; a tibiale.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(3) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(4) The total resection was possible without opening of the tumor and reconstruction was possible with a tibial graft.
(5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(6) Based on review examination of 224 patients 5 years after their ankle fractures, the authors demonstrate a significant worsening of prognosis with fractures of the anterior or posterior tibial margin.
(7) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
(8) The mitotic activities of various cellular components of callus tissues in different periods after tibial fracture of rat were studied with 3H-thymidine labeling and electron radioautographic method.
(9) Such deformities may be the only future indication for the use of this operation as these knees do not do well when treated by tibial osteotomy.
(10) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(11) Open reduction and internal fixation with anterior compartment fasciotomy for fractures of both tibial plateaus in a 36-year-old woman was complicated by deep-vein thrombosis three days after surgery.
(12) The tibial diaphysis was divided into proximal, middle (devascularized), and distal segments.
(13) The present article is a case report on a woman patient suspected to be suffering from achillodynia caused by a schwannoma of the tibial nerve.
(14) Changing the partition of the load on the femoral surface and the permeability at the tibial surface changes the time-dependent response, but has little effect on the strain distributions at times of the order of 5 s considered in this study.
(15) A knee simulator was used to study the wear of carbon fiber reinforced UHMWPE (Poly Two) (Poly Two is a registered trademark of Zimmer, USA) tibial and patellar components against Ti-6A1-4V, titanium nitride (TiN)-coated Ti-6A1-4V, and cobalt-chromium-molybdenum femoral components.
(16) However, a second, delayed cessation of the EMG activity in the anterior tibial muscle is due to mechanical events.
(17) The incidence of tibial fractures, ankle injuries and lacerations also declined.
(18) Operative treatment was used 22 times (5 sesamoid fractures, 5 midtibial fractures, 5 metatarsal V base fractures, 3 tarsal navicular fractures, 3 olecranon fractures, and 1 proximal tibial shaft fracture).
(19) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
(20) Following anesthesia obtained with a posterior tibial nerve block, the plantar verruca can be successfully dissected with an 80 percent cure rate.