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tibia (n.)
lower leg bone, 1726, from Latin
tibia
"shinbone," also "pipe, flute" (originally one of bone), in which sense it originally came into English (1540s). Of unknown origin. The Latin plural is
tibiæ
. Related:
Tibial
.
