Word: tibias
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...still displayed the smooth forehead and expressionless eyes of the silent treatment that apprehended perpetrators can give. His right foot was mangled-bits of sneaker mixed in with clotted blood, bone, cartilage and tendon. His left leg was hanging by skin. The jagged stump of his tibia stuck out just below the knee-pretty much what you would expect from the wheel of a subway train. Even in Harlem, this was pretty...
...reveal clues that prevent a misdiagnosis or an unnecessary test; that childhood injury, that illness during a trip abroad, that family history of excessive bleeding. When the orthopedist hears that Mary broke her leg when she was 2 years old, he can hope that the dark spot on her tibia may not be a deadly bone cancer but something more benign, like a Brodie's abscess. He may still remove the abscess but not have to do a whole invasive tumor workup. Doctors talk privately about the cost--economic and physical--of the bias toward overtesting. They are less beguiled...
Having recovered from a season-ending injury in 2003—when he broke both his right tibia and fibula against Northeastern—Frey was finally healthy and fired up for his senior season with the Harvard football team...
...broken bone in his leg would probably not have been enough to end his season, but Frey broke his tibia and fibula, an injury that continues to thwart the completion of that initial comeback...
Along with the continued absence of junior center Andy Smith (sprained MCL) and junior tackle Mike Frey (broken tibia), the Crimson entered the game without backup tackle Max McKibben (sprained MCL). Then senior tackle Joe Mujalli, who has been playing in pain with a sprained knee, left the game in the first half...