fibula

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.

Noun used with modifier

pig: Pins Eleven pins or pin fragments were recovered, nine of which were worked from pig fibulae or probably pig fibulae.