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Fibula

"Fibula" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The bone of the lower leg lateral to and smaller than the tibia. In proportion to its length, it is the most slender of the long bones.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fibula" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fibula" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 23 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2008
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