Converse of object

• suffer: Mr Flint was severely injured in the incident suffering a broken fibula - the bone which runs from the knee to the ankle.

Adjective modifier

• distal: Frances is getting her first surgery tomorrow on her distal fibula of her left leg.

• fractured: It transpired that she had sustained a fractured fibula.

• broken: Mr Flint was severely injured in the incident suffering a broken fibula - the bone which runs from the knee to the ankle.

• right: She sustained a fracture to her right ankle and a fracture to her right fibula.

• proximal: Instead there was internal rotation of the proximal fibula.

• intact: They therefore used the intact fibula to simulate a repaired fibular fracture.

Modifies a noun

• bone: When he hit the floor he snapped the fibula bone in his left leg just above the ankle.

• brooch: One large ditch contained a large number of sherds, quern stones and a fibula brooch.

• fracture: MICHAEL STEPHENSON Fully recovered from a horrific tibia and fibula fracture sustained last April whilst making a tackle on Northampton's Ben Cohen.