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  • Broke his tibia.†  (source)
  • The tibia, the larger bone in my lower leg, had sustained what doctors call a "spiral break," meaning that each end of the break looked like the barber-pole pattern on a drill bit.†  (source)
  • An infection spiked up and he was rushed to the emergency room downtown where a two-inch section of his tibia and fibula was removed.†  (source)
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  • Jacoby then heard what sounded like a gunshot—the tibia and fibula in Joe Theismann's right leg snapping beneath Taylor.†  (source)
  • The main body of the chandelier was formed by spinal columns, fused together; femurs and tibias dripped like decoration from the arms of the fixture, which swooped up to cradle human skulls, each holding a massive taper.†  (source)
  • Adam's tibial plateau—the upper surface of the tibia, the shinbone—had "caved in, shattered," according to the doctor who saw Adam.†  (source)
  • I read about the other stigmata of syphilis: mulberry molars, saber-shinned tibias, and deafness.†  (source)
  • "Tibia," we said.†  (source)
  • I learned that insects are arthropods and that they have tibias too!†  (source)
  • If she hadn't, the ward nurse would very likely be standing at the Pearly Gates with Ms. Fitzgerald right now instead of dealing with a broken tibia and some cracked ribs.†  (source)
  • Coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus.†  (source)
  • One day her weakened leg gave way; she fell and broke the lower bone, the tibia, which never mended.†  (source)
  • You had three broken ribs, a cracked tibia, countless abrasions, and a horrific amount of blood loss, Otis.†  (source)
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