Word: tibia
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...catalog of trauma turned out to be a long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could...
...second doctor took another X-ray and diagnosed a broken tibia...
Stress fracture was the diagnosis, yet this was a unique injury--the crack went a third of the way through Kelly's tibia. But the ailment should clear itself up by the time Kelly entered Harvard, the doctors said...
...Crimson (3-2-2) was beaten literally as well. Scrum half Keiko Morris was the primary casualty of the aggressive UConn attack. Morris, who was playing with splints, fractured a tibia during the second half. Kathryn Cahir, who is normally a flanker, was forced to assume Morris' position for the rest of the afternoon...
...here, if we can," said Dr. Frankel, drawing imaginary lines across the top and the bottom of Reza's right shin. Two cuts would divide the shin into three pieces, allowing it to be stretched at two points. "Or a single cut here if calculations prove his tibia too short for two cuts," said Dr. Lehman, touching the middle of the shin. The doctors did not know yet whether the bone-stretching frame could hold in line Reza's shin in three pieces his brother Amir, 12, barely suppressed a wince whenever the doctors said the word cut. But Reza...