used as combining form of TIBIA, in anatomical terms in the sense ‘pertaining to the tibia and (some other part),’ as tibio-femoral, -fibular, -metatarsal, -peroneal, -popliteal, etc., adjs.; Tibiotarsal a., of or pertaining to the tibia and the tarsus; pertaining to the tibiotarsus; Tibiotarsus, Ornith., the tibia of a bird’s leg with the condyles formed by its fusion with the proximal bones of the tarsus.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 152/1. The inferior *tibiofibular articulation.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 14. The *tibiometatarsal joint.
1803. Barclay, New Anat. Nomencl., 174. In describing the direction of the superficial femoral artery,… at first it is rotulo-tibial, then *ribio-popliteal.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 151/2. The anterior *tibio-tarsal ligament arises from this margin.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 69. The leg is almost always feathered to or beyond the tibio-tarsal joint.
1883. Martin & Moale, Vertebr. Dissect., II. 124. The *tibio-tarsus … consists not only of the tibia, but of the proximal bone of the tarsus, which becomes fused with it at an early period.
