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superior tibial articulation (medicine) and nest(1) (iou)


superior tibial articulation (medicine)


superior tibial articulation -->
proximal tibiofibular joint


The plane synovial joint between the lateral condyle of the tibia and the head of the fibula.

Synonym: articulatio tibiofibularis, superior tibial articulation, superior tibiofibular joint, tibiofibular articulation.


nest(1) (iou)



nest noun.
[Old English nest = Middle & mod. Dutch, Old & mod. High German nest, from Indo-European (whence also Latin nidus, Old Irish net (mod. nead), Welsh nyth, Sanskrit nia resting-place), from base meaning 'down' (repr. also in 1st elem. of NETHER) + base of SIT verb.]
a. A structure made or a place chosen by a bird for laying and incubating its eggs and for sheltering its young. OE.
C. Stead Along the side porch..were five nests, two of house wrens and three..of sparrows.
b. A place or structure used by an animal or insect as a lair or somewhere to live, or as a spawning- or breeding-ground. LME.
W. Kirby Fishes..sometimes..prepare regular nests for their young. J. A. Thomson The tree-nest of one of the Termites.
a. A place in which a person (or personified thing) lives or finds rest; a lodging, shelter, Home, bed, etc., esp. of a secluded or comfortable Nature; a snug retreat. OE.
love-nest: see LOVE noun.
b. A place in which a thing is lodged or deposited. L16.
c. Military. An emplaced group of machine-guns. E20.
C. Ryan Tops of haystacks open to disclose nests of 88 and 20 mm. guns.
A place usually inhabited or frequented by people of a certain type or class; a place or quarter in which some state of things, quality, etc. (esp. of a bad kind), is fostered or is prevalent; a haunt of thieves, robbers, crime, vice, etc. LME.
a. A number of birds, insects, or Other animals occupying the same nest or habitation; a brood, a swarm, a colony. LME.
b. A number or collection of people, esp. of the same type or class or inhabiting or frequenting the same place. L16.
K. Waterhouse There is a chattering nest of Arab women at the..chemist's.
A set or series of similar objects, esp. designed to be contained in the same receptacle or so made that each smaller one is enclosed in or fits into the next up in size; an accumulation or collection of similar objects or immaterial things. LME.
E. Caird The cosmological argument is a nest of dialectical assumptions. F. L. Wright A nest of small tables. New Yorker They had a breadbox, a camp stove, a nest of aluminum pots.
b. A connected series of cog-wheels or pulleys. L18.
c. A number of buildings or narrow streets lying in close proximity to one another. L18.
S. Sheldon A nest of research buildings..experimental laboratories..and railroad spurs.
d. Computing & Linguistics. A set of nested procedures, subroutines, or syntactic units. M20.
Mineralogy. A small isolated deposit of a mineral or metal. E18.
Phrases: empty nest: see EMPTY adjective & noun. feather one's nest, feather one's own nest: see FEATHER verb 5a. foul one's nest, foul one's own nest: see FOUL verb 2. mare's nest: see MARE noun1.
Comb.: nest-box (a) a box containing others of graduated sizes fitted in a nest; (b) a box provided for a domestic fowl or Other bird to make its nest in; nest egg (a) an egg, natural or artificial, left in a nest to induce a hen etc. to continue to lay there after Other eggs have been removed; an inducement, a decoy; (b) a sum of money laid or set by as a reserve or nucleus of savings; something kept in reserve.
nestful noun the quantity or number (of eggs or young) that a nest can contain L16.
nestlike adjective resembling (that of) a nest L18.