The second longest bone of the skeleton. It is located on the medial side of the lower leg, articulating with the FIBULA laterally, the TALUS distally, and the FEMUR proximally.
    

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A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.

The muscles of the lower leg and the sole of the foot, dissected and separated, with the tibia and fibula exposed. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

Section tibial head - copper deficient lamb

Case of acute necrosis of the tibia : death from pyæmia / by William S. Savory.

Osteosarkom der Tibia ... / vorgelegt von Ernst Lesser.

Fracture of the tibia as the result of a fall. Radiograph, 1917.

On certain minor affections of the tibio-fibular joints / [Edgar F. Cyriax].

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Case of acute necrosis of the tibia : death from pyæmia / by William S. Savory.

Osteosarkom der Tibia ... / vorgelegt von Ernst Lesser.

Fracture of the tibia as the result of a fall. Radiograph, 1917.

Section tibial head - copper deficient lamb

On certain minor affections of the tibio-fibular joints / [Edgar F. Cyriax].