Two long bones, known as the tibia and fibula, make up the legs. The tibia is the larger bone and is more commonly known as the shinbone. “Tibia” is Latin, meaning bone flute and shinbone. Flutes were once made from the tibia of animals. The fibula runs parallel to the tibia. "...
Stress fractures about the knee, especially the proximal tibia, are not uncommon and occasionally show a dense line of compacted trabeculae but may require a radionuclide bone scan or MRI to document. Femorotibial dislocations are rare. These can be anterior or posterior, and are often associated...
The underlying bone of the forearm is the radius bone. A long forearm is desirable as it can signify a long smooth stride. The radius bone in humans runs between the elbow and wrist joints. Any bones below the forearm on a horse are essentially equivalent to the bones of the hands and ...
Seven dorsal vertebrae and a right tibia, all found reasonably close together in a little pocket in the vast expanse of Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry. The vertebrae are obviously referable toHaplocanthosaurusbecause of their dorsally-oriented transverse processes, which instantly mark out Haplo from all ...
The knee is an important anatomy in the human body that comprises of the following: Bones: It has shin bone popularly known as tibia, a smaller bone called the fibula, femur the thigh bone, kneecap also known as the patella. Tendons Cartilage Muscles Ligaments: ACL, LCL, PCL, MCL Your ...
Here’s a tibia. And a dorsal vertebra. I’m such a ninny, because the centrum is a little out-of-round I assumed that this was a cast of BYU 9044, the ‘Ultrasauros’ holotype vertebra. I didn’t figure out that it was a piece of Jimbo until I was on the road. *facepalm* ...
The cover picture shows micro computer tomography images that demonstrate the effect of zoledronate in the prevention of the tumor osteolytic response caused by local injection of human 4T1 mammary carcinoma cells into the tibia of nude mice. The circular arrangement shows interpolations between ...
Panderichthys is a crucial transitional fossil, showing a mid-point in the evolution of the pelvic girdle which made basal tetrapod legs possible. It even had a spiracle, or oxygen-breathing tube, on its head, which later evolved into the stirrup bone in tetrapod ears. This allowed it to ...
even after the paper was finalized. No other allosaurid or allosauroid or theropod of any description that I know of has prominent bars of bone in the same place, but they’d be expected in the neural arch of a juvenile diplodocid. And at this point I think it’s bordering on speci...
the absurdly long period during which the ALL escaped wide detection is flat-out amazing to me. But it also makes sense in a weird way. The ALL angles downward and forward from the lateral aspect of the distal femur to the anterior portion of the proximal tibia (hence anterolateral ligament...