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the bone too proud to carry your weight, too useful to remove
means The fibula is the thinner of the two bones in your lower leg, running alongside the sturdier tibia from knee to ankle.
from From Latin fibula, meaning 'clasp,' 'brooch,' or 'pin' — the kind that fastened a cloak. Roman anatomists, eyeing the slender bone lying against the broad tibia, saw the shape of a brooch and its pin, and named it accordingly. The Latin fibula is thought to derive from figere, 'to fasten or fix,' the same root that gives us 'fix' and 'affix.'
- weight share
- Bears under 15% of your body load
- surgeon's stash
- Harvested to rebuild jaws and missing bones
- latin roots
- Named after the ancient brooch pin
- skinny twin
- Thinnest long bone relative to its length
for instance
fibula of tutankhamun — ancient egyptian pharaoh's leg bone, discovered in his tomb by carter in 1922