platcnemic

[ Pref.platy-, and Gr. knēmē =the tibia.] Anthrop.: A term applied to certain fo il human tibise, much more compre ed than is normal, and to races po e ing such tibise. "This peculiar con. formation of the tibiæ, to which we gave the name of platycnemic, was, I believe, first noticed by Dr. Falconer and myself in 1863, in the human remains procured by Captain Brome from the Genista cave, on Windmill Hill, Gibraltar."- Dawkins : Cave Hunting, p. 175. plăt-c-ně-mişm, A B Sections of Tibise.