shinbone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shinbone
before 1000; Middle English; Old English scinbān. See shin 1, bone
Example Sentences
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Vonn suffered a complex fracture in her left tibia or shinbone, the larger and stronger of the two bones in the lower leg.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
The condition, which strikes many young athletes, causes painful inflammation of the growth plate just above the shinbone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
In 1994, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her team found more than 80 fossils of teeth, jaws, a partial arm, and shinbone at two sites near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
The procedure involved placing new implants at the end of the thighbone and top of the shinbone with the computer's aid to ensure the knee was stable and balanced throughout the range of motion.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
And looked helpless like a shinbone, or a tiny speck of black on the Queen Elizabeth roses, or film on the eye of a dead goldfish.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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