different between fibula vs peroneal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin f?bula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?b.j?l.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?b.j?l.?/
• Rhymes: -?bj?l?

Noun

fibula (plural fibulae or (obsolete) fibulæ or fibulas)

1. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
2. (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.

   Synonym: calf bone

Derived terms

• fibular
• fibulate
• fibulo-, fibul-
• tibiofibula

Related terms

• fibularis

Translations

See also

• peroneal

References

• “fibula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “fibula”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin f?bula. Doublet of the inherited fibbia.

Noun

fibula f (plural fibule)

1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone

   Synonym: perone

Anagrams

• bufali

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of f?gibula, from f?g? (“to fix, fasten, thrust in”) +? -bula (instrumental nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fi?.bu.la/, [?fi?b???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fi.bu.la/, [?fi?bul?]

Noun

f?bula f (genitive f?bulae); first declension

1. (literally) clasp, buckle, brooch, pin, latchet, brace
2. (transferred sense) connection, bond, fetter
3. (surgery)
   1. surgical instrument for drawing together the lips of a wound
   2. stitching needle drawn through the prepuce

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• conf?bula
• f?bul?t?rius
• f?bul?
• suff?bulum

Descendants

References

• fibula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fibula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fibula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fibula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fibula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fibula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fi?bula]

Noun

fibula f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fibul?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fîbula/
• Hyphenation: fi?bu?la

Noun

f?bula f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone

Declension

English

Etymology

From perona or peroneus +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.???ni?.?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??.o??ni?.?l/, /p???o?.ni.?l/ (to differentiate from perineal, see below)
• Rhymes: -i??l

Adjective

peroneal (comparative more peroneal, superlative most peroneal)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to the fibula or to the part of the leg containing it, the outside (lateral aspect) of the lower leg (that is, what anatomical terminology calls the leg, from knee to foot). [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 526:

     Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.

Usage notes

Do not confuse peroneal ("of the outside of the lower leg") with perineal ("of the skin between the genitals and anus"); the words sound almost alike or even entirely alike, depending on the variable quality of a single reduced vowel.

Derived terms

• peroneal artery
• peroneal nerve
• peroneal vein

Synonyms

• fibular

Anagrams

• Loperena