tibia
In 4 atlases
Key points
- The tibia is the main weight-bearing bone of the leg, lying between the knee and ankle on the inner side of the fibula.
- Its upper end forms part of the knee, while its lower end forms part of the ankle and the inner ankle prominence.
- The tibial tuberosity receives the patellar ligament, linking the thigh’s knee-extending muscles to the tibia.
- The tibia connects with the fibula through joints at its ends and a fibrous membrane between their shafts.
Definition
The major preaxial endochondral bone in the posterior zeugopod[Phenoscape].
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 1397
- TA98
- A02.5.06.001
- FMA
- 24476
- UBERON
- 0000979
- Wikidata
- Q178366