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A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.

of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.

bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

Pertaining to the fibula.

ne or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals.

eg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.

; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

om Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.

The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.