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calf bone

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Noun1.calf bone - the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and anklecalf bone - the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
fibula
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
leg bone - a bone of the leg
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Eduardo had suffered a broken left fibula- the calf bone originating from the ankle- and an open dislocation of his ankle.
BOUNCING BACK by Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
Dr Briggs and his team performed a pioneering operation that involved grafting bone from her calf bone, breaking it into three, and attaching it to her damaged hip joint.
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She had surgery to mend the broken shin and calf bone on the Sunday and doctors in-serted a metal rod in her leg.
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