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The tibia is what to the fibula?
The fibula is lateral to the tibia.
What is the fibula?
In human anatomy, the fibula is a bone of the leg. It is situated lateral to the tibia (larger shin bone) and between the patella (knee) and ankle. The fibula is not as long, thick, or strong as the tibia, and does not provide weight support. However, the fibula assists with muscle structure, and can be utilized when large bone grafts are necessary.
Which bone in leg is weight bearing?
All the bones in the human leg are weight bearing except the fibula.
What is the easiest bone to break in the leg?
Either of the tibia and fibula are the easiest to break in the leg.
What bone in the leg does not bear weight?
Fibula-- someone answered tibia on a previous question and that answer is incorrect
What is the weight-bearing bone of the leg called?
femur, tibia, fibula
One of the lower leg bones?
Fibula or Tibia?
Is the tibia lateral to the fibula?
The fibula is located lateral to the tibia. In overall anatomical position, the tibia is medial in the body, and the tibia lateral. Both are located in the lower leg. The tibia articulates with the patella proximally, the fibula laterally, and the talus distally.
Is the Tibia is Medial to the fibula?
The fibula is lateral to the tibia. The fibula is the smaller of the two lower leg bones.
Is the fibula lateral to the tibia?
The tibia is medial to the fibula. The tibia is the larger of the lower leg bones.
What is the name of your two lower leg bones?
The two lower leg bones are called the tibia and fibula. The tibia is the larger and weight-bearing bone located on the inner side of the leg, while the fibula is thinner and situated on the outer side of the leg.
Is the fibula or tibia bigger?
The tibia is the larger and stronger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates and connects the knee with the ankle bones while fibula is a leg bone located on the lateral side of the tibia, with which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones, and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones.
