What is the bone that articulates with the distal tibia?

Answer 1

The tibia is two the fibula and the talus. situated at the medial side of the leg, and, excepting the femur, is the longest bone of the skeleton
. It is prismoid in form, expanded above, where it enters into the knee-joint, contracted in the lower third, and again enlarged but to a lesser extent below.

In the male, its direction is vertical, and parallel with the bone of the opposite side; but in the female it has a slightly oblique direction downward and lateralward, to compensate for the greater obliquity of the femur. It has The Upper Extremity (proximal extremity).—The upper extremity is large, and expanded into two eminences, the medial and lateral condyles. The superior articular surface presents two smooth articular facets .

The medial facet, oval in shape, is slightly concave from side to side, and from before backward. The lateral, nearly circular, is concave from side to side, but slightly convex from before backward, especially at its posterior part, where it is prolonged on to the posterior surface for a short distance.

The central portions of these facets articulate with the condyles of the femur, while their peripheral portions support the menisci of the knee-joint, which here intervene between the two bones.

Between the articular facets, but nearer the posterior than the anterior aspect of the bone, is the intercondyloid eminence (spine of tibia), surmounted on either side by a prominent tuberclea body and two extremities.


In the resting position, contraction of the muscles of the thigh inserted into the tibiofibula, causes it to straighten the hinge joint of the knee, lifting the thigh and lifting the leg, too. The muscles in the back of the tibiofibula, pull the calcaneus and astragalis bones up at the ankle, to gain more lift. (In humans, another bone, the talus, articulates with the distal tibia and fibula, giving the flexibility of the ankle to walk on slanted surfaces.)

Answer 2

There are two the fibula and the talus.