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  • noun Plural form of fibula.

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Examples

  • Both of my fibulas and both of my thighs had already been plundered.

    Roger Ebert: 'I'm happy I don't look worse' 2011

  • The stairs looked like rows of teeth from the street, the hard granite curbs the femurs and fibulas and tibias of the neighborhood.

    Time of Death Ann Wahlman 2011

  • "I've seen people blow out their tibia and fibulas just by going through a turn," said Picabo Street, the silver medalist in the Olympic downhill in 1994.

    The Old Men on the Mountains Matthew Futterman 2010

  • And in the morning, everywhere she went: that fetid stink, those heaps of sucked white femurs, fibulas, tibias, skulls, ribs.

    Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

  • "I've seen people blow out their tibia and fibulas just by going through a turn," said Picabo Street, the silver medalist in the Olympic downhill in 1994.

    The Old Men on the Mountains Matthew Futterman 2010

  • Pistorius was born without fibulas -- the long, thin outer bone between the knee and ankle -- and was 11 months old when his legs were amputated below the knee.

    When the amputee is barred from the Olympics because his prosthetic legs give him an advantage... Ann Althouse 2008

  • And an article on amputees and prostethic limbs written in 1999 for the New Statesman: The September issue of Dazed and Confused magazine, guest-edited by the fashion designer Alexander McQueen, featured the model Aimee Mullins, whose legs were amputated below the knee in infancy because she was born without fibulas.

    Ode to Sitemeter Kay Olson 2007

  • And an article on amputees and prostethic limbs written in 1999 for the New Statesman: The September issue of Dazed and Confused magazine, guest-edited by the fashion designer Alexander McQueen, featured the model Aimee Mullins, whose legs were amputated below the knee in infancy because she was born without fibulas.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • Two other corners, Charles Woodson and Tory James, broke fibulas.

    USATODAY.com - Raiders loom large against Bucs 2003

  • I'm a double amputee, and I was born without fibulas in both legs.

    Aimee Mullins on running Aimee Mullins 1998

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