tibial

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   relating to or located near a tibia

Questions about tibial

What does tibial mean?

tibial means "relating to or located near a tibia".

How many syllables are in tibial?

tibial has 3 syllables and divides as ti-bi-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is tibial a common word?

tibial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.