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Tibetic languages
Tibetic languages: family of over 50 languages descended from Old Tibetan, spoken in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and China; often mutually unintelligible varieties formerly called Tibetan dialects.
Tibeto-Burman languages
Tibeto-Burman languages are the over 250 non-Chinese members of Sino-Tibetan, spanning southern China, the Himalayas, northeast India, and Southeast Asia, with object-before-verb order and debated internal subgrouping.
Tibia
Tibia (shin bone): the larger, medial of the two leg bones, second longest in the body after the femur. Forms the knee joint with the femur and the ankle joint with the fibula and talus; bears body weight.
Tibial aplasia-ectrodactyly syndrome
Tibial aplasia-ectrodactyly syndrome, also called SHFLD (split-hand/foot malformation with long bone deficiency, OMIM 119100), is a rare autosomal dominant limb malformation combining ectrodactyly with tibial aplasia or hypoplasia, often caused by 17p13.3 BHLHA9 duplications with incomplete penetrance.
Tibial hemimelia-polysyndactyly-triphalangeal thumb syndrome
Tibial hemimelia-polysyndactyly-triphalangeal thumb syndrome (THPTTS, Werner mesomelic syndrome, OMIM 188740) is a rare ZRS-related dysostosis with triphalangeal thumbs, polysyndactyly, and absent or hypoplastic tibiae.
Tibial muscular dystrophy
Tibial muscular dystrophy (TMD, Udd myopathy, distal titinopathy) is an adult-onset autosomal dominant distal myopathy from TTN titin mutations, common in Finland (1/5,000), causing ankle dorsiflexor weakness with spared extensor digitorum brevis and no cardiomyopathy.
Tibial nerve
Tibial nerve: terminal branch of the sciatic nerve (L4–S3) supplying motor and sensory innervation to the posterior leg and plantar foot; passes through the tarsal tunnel, dividing into medial and lateral plantar nerves; tarsal tunnel syndrome is its main entrapment.
Tibial plateau fracture
Tibial plateau fracture, also called proximal tibia articular fracture, is a break of the knee's tibial joint surface, about 1% of all fractures, classified by Schatzker types I-VI and treated operatively or nonoperatively depending on displacement.
Tibialis anterior muscle
Tibialis anterior (tibialis anticus), largest muscle of the leg's anterior compartment; dorsiflexes ankle and inverts foot; originates on lateral tibia and interosseous membrane, inserts on medial cuneiform and first metatarsal, innervated by deep fibular nerve (L4, L5).
Tibialis posterior muscle
Tibialis posterior (musculus tibialis posterior), deepest muscle of the leg's deep posterior compartment; originates from tibia, fibula, and interosseous membrane, inserts on navicular, cuneiforms, cuboid, and metatarsals 2-4; plantarflexes, inverts, and supports the medial arch; tibial nerve L4-L5.
Tibiao Butterfly House
Tibiao Butterfly House is a small privately run butterfly zoo in Brgy. Importante, Tibiao, Antique, Philippines, started in 2010; it breeds endemic butterflies, charges PhP 50, and sells butterfly-decorated clock souvenirs.
Tibidabo
Tibidabo: 512 m Barcelona hill, highest point of the Collserola range, home to the 1901 amusement park (second oldest in Europe) and the Sacred Heart basilica; name means "I shall give you".
Tibiscum
Tibiscum (Tivisco, Τίβισκον) was a Roman fort and civilian settlement, later a municipium, in Dacia at modern Jupa, Caraş-Severin, Romania, on the Timiş River; founded under Trajan, garrisoned by Palmyrenian and Vindelician auxiliaries, part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia property.
Tibni
Tibni, son of Ginath, was a rival of Omri for the throne of the northern kingdom of Israel around 885 BC, mentioned only in 1 Kings 16.
Tibnor
Tibnor is a Nordic steel and metals distribution company owned by Swedish steelmaker SSAB, serving about 10,000 industrial customers and describing itself as the leading steel distributor in the Nordics.
Tibolone
Tibolone, sold as Livial, is a synthetic steroid hormone drug used to treat menopausal symptoms and prevent osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, mainly in Europe and Asia.
Tibor Benedek
Tibor Benedek (1972-2020), Hungarian water polo left-handed driver and coach; three straight Olympic golds 2000-2008, 2013 world champion coach, ISHOF 2016, voted 21st century's best men's player.
Tibor Berczelly
Tibor Berczelly (Berczeller Tibor, 1912-1990), Hungarian left-handed sabre fencer; three straight Olympic team sabre golds (1936, 1948, 1952), two 1952 bronzes, four world titles, record 8 Hungarian individual sabre championships.
Tibor Csernai
Tibor Csernai (1938–2012) was a Hungarian football striker who won gold with Hungary at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, scoring six goals in four matches, and spent most of his club career with Tatabányai Bányász.
Tibor Cservenyák
Tibor Cservenyák, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper born 1948 in Szolnok; Olympic gold 1976 Montreal and silver 1972 Munich, world champion 1973, later radiochemist in Zurich and Swiss national coach 1990–1996.
Tibor Farkas
Tibor Farkas (Farkas Tibor, 1929–2003) was a Hungarian biochemist who studied how membrane lipids adapt to temperature, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1989.
Tibor Gallai
Tibor Gallai, born Tibor Grünwald (1912–1992), was a Hungarian mathematician in combinatorics and graph theory, known for the Sylvester–Gallai theorem, the Gallai–Edmonds theorem, and Erdős–Gallai extremal results.
Tibor Grasser
Tibor Grasser (born 1970) is an Austrian electrical engineer, IEEE Fellow, and head of the Institute for Microelectronics at TU Wien, known for semiconductor reliability modeling.
Tibor Harkany
Tibor Harkany, born 1972, is a Hungarian molecular neurobiologist who studies how the brain develops, focusing on the hypothalamus and endocannabinoids, and heads Molecular Neurosciences in Vienna.
Tibor J. Greenwalt
Tibor J. Greenwalt (1914–2005) was a Hungarian-born American physician and educator called the "Father of Transfusion Medicine", who directed the American Red Cross blood program and Hoxworth Blood Center.
Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman (1949–1999) was a Hungarian-born American graphic designer who founded the New York firm M&Co and served as founding editor of Benetton's Colors magazine, arguing design had a duty to social message.
Tibor Radó
Tibor Radó (1895–1965) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who independently solved Plateau's problem in 1930 and, with Shen Lin, introduced the busy beaver problem in 1962.
Tibor Rubin
Tibor Rubin (1929-2015), Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and US Army corporal in the 8th Cavalry Regiment, Korean War POW who saved over 40 prisoners; only Holocaust survivor awarded the Medal of Honor, in 2005.
Tibor Veres
Tibor Veres (Veres Tibor) is a Hungarian investor who founded, owns, and leads Wallis Group, a Budapest-based investment group with holdings across 18 European countries.
Tibor Weißenborn
Tibor Weißenborn, German field hockey midfielder born 1981 in West Berlin; Olympic gold 2008 and bronze 2004, World Cup 2002/2006, 324 caps; later head coach of Rot-Weiss Köln women.