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    TIBIALIS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the footplay

    Synonyms:

    musculus tibialis; tibialis; tibialis muscle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("tibialis" is a kind of...):

    skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tibialis"):

    tibialis anterior; tibialis anticus (a muscle running from the tibia to the first metatarsal and cuneiform bones)

    tibialis posterior; tibialis posticus (a deep muscle of the leg)

    Holonyms ("tibialis" is a part of...):

    leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

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