A tibia had become a free agent.
It looks like it could be a tibia.
Some were found only on a tibia, others on a pronotum or abdomen.
The laboratory had been provided with muscle tissue from both bodies, as well as a tibia from the woman and a femur from the fetus.
The first showed a mouse that had part of a tibia removed to simulate an injury so severe as to require amputation.
"We have recovered what we believe are a human fibula, a tibia, a hip or pelvic bone and a bone from either a hand or a foot," he said.
Stepping in fresh boot prints, we passed a mess of uniform and bone: a desiccated head with hair; a tibia and femur, bent at the knee, the foot still socked and shod.
By now, the Prices have seen it all: Patrick has broken a wrist and a tibia and sprained an ankle since their yard became the neighborhood skateboard park three years ago, said Mr. Price, 50, an asset manager.
Each leg always consists of five parts: a coxa articulated to the thorax, a small trochanter, a femur, a tibia, and a tarsus with one to five segments.
The camel's remains, 30 pieces that make up a tibia, were found near an area where a number of fossils of small forest mammals have been previously discovered.
Radiographic examination confirmed a tibia malunion (Fig. 1c, d).
