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Word: Fibula
Speech Type: Noun
late 16th century: from Latin, ‘brooch’, perhaps related to figere ‘to fix’. The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin
ˈfɪbjʊlə
the outer and usually smaller of the two bones between the knee and the ankle (or the equivalent joints in other terrestrial vertebrates), parallel with the tibia.
Short Definition:outer and usually smaller of two bones between knee and ankle
a brooch or clasp.
Short Definition:brooch or clasp
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