Examinations confirm that the relic is a male calf bone.

Beef or calf bones are put up to boil with water, seasonings, garlic and onions for a long time.

Having cleaned the wounds, I ran my hands along the leg, but could detect no obvious break in the shin or calf bones.

Before closing, the store was reduced to carrying only a handful of items like horse meat, calf bones and toothpaste.

The top of the calf bone and the bottom of the thigh bone, once rounded, are now flat.

Valentino's shin bone was poking through his skin and he'd broken a calf bone, too.

Kendall, 24, suffered two broken ankles and a broken calf bone and thigh bone.

Abnormal calf bone shape (fibula)

In 1987 he broke his calf bone and shin bone on one leg in a collision with the opponent goalkeeper during a football match.

The relic, which is a calf bone and not an arm bone, had then been kept in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen since the late 17th century.

Yet another competitor is the Xoma Corporation of Berkeley, Calif., which plans to start human clinical trials in several months on a bone-growth protein isolated from calf bones.

What makes this possible is the pearly-white cartilage that covers the ends of the tibia (calf bone) and the femur (thigh bone), the bones that meet at the knee.

He was steadily advancing into the crew's quarters, firing at any Oriental face that showed itself when suddenly he was flat on his face, a bullet breaking the calf bone of his good leg.

When the Norwegian U-18 team met Turkey twice in three days in August 2007, Fellah was badly injured in a challenge with Serdar Aziz in the second game and broke his calf bone.