How to Use shinbone in a Sentence

shinbone

noun
Definition of shinbonenext
  • The patellar tendon attaches the bottom of the kneecap to the top of the shinbone.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This band of tissue connects the thigh bone to the shinbone and stabilizes the knee.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Overall, the goal is to help relieve tension along the side of your thigh in the tissue that extends from the top of your thigh to the top of your shinbone.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
  • His friend’s right arm was out of its socket, his shinbone poking through his skin.
    — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
  • Another acupressure point, which is said to nourish the blood, is found just below the knee on the outer side of the shinbone.
    — NBC News, 14 May 2020
  • The private had been shot in the legs and shinbone, and his right hand had been shredded, leaving three of his fingers barely attached.
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Schlatter disease, an inflammation of the area just below the knee where the tendon from the kneecap attaches to the shinbone.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The remains were so well protected, DH7’s left shinbone still had both ends—a profoundly rare find.
    — National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Ligaments connect bones, and the ACL connects the thighbone (femur) to the shinbone (tibia).
    — Colin Hoobler, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2020
  • For instance, excess bone growth on a tibia or shinbone can indicate soft-tissue infections on the leg that spread to the bone.
    — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2016
  • Four days later, Taylor left the hospital in a wheelchair, her right shinbone held together with a metal plate and a dozen screws.
    — Emily Schmall, The Seattle Times, 6 July 2017
  • Wallace will also miss out after picking up a shinbone injury before his side's loss to Genoa on Monday.
    — SI.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • This is a shinbone from a Centrosaurus apertus: a horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in Alberta, Canada.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • And defensive players and linemen who have had surgery to replace or repair their meniscus, the knee cartilage that cushions the shinbone from the thighbone?
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2021
  • In the same 2010 e-mail, Dunn cited the case of another patient who suffered compartment syndrome during surgery on a broken shinbone.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Another team is developing a working meniscus, a thick piece of cartilage that sits between the thigh bone and shinbone.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2020
  • One is Osgood-Schlatter disease, a condition that usually occurs during a growth spurt when a tendon tugs on a growth plate in the shinbone, causing pain.
    — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Shin splints are generally diagnosed by someone noticing tenderness, soreness, or pain along the inner side of the shinbone, and mild swelling in the lower leg.
    — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2019
  • Due to a congenital abnormality, Frech was born with only one finger on his left hand and missing his left knee and shinbone.
    — Emily Burack, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The 35-year old recently cracked a shinbone while working on a mural in L.A., and continued painting for several hours before taking a break.
    — Jessica Donath, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Currie once saw a Confuciusornis—a crow-sized Cretaceous bird—that was clearly fake because its foot had been glued directly to its knee, with no shinbone in the middle.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Tanner suffered a broken shinbone, facial trauma, abrasions and a laceration caused by the fall, and the death was ruled a homicide, authorities said.
    — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • One of the bullets struck Taylor, shattering her right shinbone, and officers quickly shielded her from more incoming rounds.
    — Emily Schmall, The Seattle Times, 6 July 2017
  • The ligament runs diagonally through the middle of the knee, connecting the shinbone to the thigh bone and providing critical joint stability.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Woods is back in his Florida home recovering from multiple surgeries, including procedures to repair two broken bones in his lower right leg with a rod in his shinbone.
    — Stefanie Dazio, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Doctors in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial center, had informed her that Beulah had been born with tibial hemimelia, a rare medical condition characterized by a missing or shortened tibia, or shinbone.
    — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 9 Aug. 2019
  • This overuse injury is characterized by inflammation and possible micro tears in the posterior tibialis muscle (the key stabilizing muscle of the lower leg), as well as inflammation in the surrounding tissue and shinbone.
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2019

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