Sentences with phrase «like fibula»

This suggests that a dinosaur - like fibula connected to the ankle stops the tibia from outgrowing the fibula, as it would normally do.

In the 19th century, scientists had already noted that bird embryos first develop a tubular, dinosaur - like fibula.

The transformation can be stopped by experimental inhibition of Indian Hedgehog (IHH), a bone maturation gene, which leads to a bird with a dinosaur - like fibula (lower right).

These forms had splinter - like fibulas that did not connect to the ankle, but were almost as long as the tibia.

Not exact matches

The fibula bone (orange) in Dinosaurs is as long as the tibia and reaches down to the ankle (upper left), whereas in adult birds, it is splinter - like and shorter than the tibia, missing its lower end (upper right).

When a maturation gene called Indian Hedgehog was inhibited, this resulted in chickens that kept a tubular fibula as long as the tibia and connected to the ankle, just like a dinosaur.

That muscle believe it or not, that helps to curl your big toe like that, starts all the way out behind your fibula.

I had bone pain — it felt like someone was twisting my fibula like it was a licorice stick.