| These two bones together link the leg to the foot at the ankle joint, although it is the tibia which carries all the weight. |
| He was taken to York District Hospital, where surgeons operated the next day, inserting a pin in the tibia to help knit the bones together. |
| It is believed that this articulation permitted a sliding movement of the tibia on the astragalus. |
| He also had tenderness bilaterally over the distal radius and ulna, and anterior tibia. |
| The medullar canal was reamed, and an aluminum connecting piece was attached to the top of the tibia with screws and an epoxy resin. |
| The lower tibia and fibula epiphyses form the lumps that we see and feel at the sides of our ankles and call ankle bones. |
