Crossword clues for femur
femur
- Bone setter got up in mink?
- Tips of feather spanning bird's bone
- Thigh bone
- Biggest human bone
- Largest human bone
- Largest bone in the body
- Bone to the knee
- Pelvis/knee connector
- Pelvis-to-knee bone
- Pelvis-patella connector
- Our longest bone
- Longest bone in the body
- Longest bone
- Longest and strongest human bone
- Longest and strongest bone in the human body
- Largest bone
- Knee-pelvis connector
- It's above the knee
- It extends from the hip to the knee
- Biggest bone in the body
- Leg bone that is the longest bone in the human body
- Thighbone
- Walker's support
- Big bone
- Leg part
- Longest bone in the human body
- Leg bone connected to the knee bone
- The longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton
- Extends from the pelvis to the knee
- Longest human bone
- Tibia's neighbor
- Our largest bone
- Man's largest and longest bone
- Limb bone
- What's inside leg measurement - perhaps moleskin trousers?
- See me wrapped up in warm coat, but only part of leg
- Father eating bird finds bone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Femur \Fe"mur\ (f[=e]"m[u^]r), n.; pl. Femora (f[e^]m"[-o]*r[.a]). [L. thigh.] (Anat.)
The thigh bone; -- it is the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton, which extends from the pelvis to the knee.
The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, at first in English as an architectural term; 1799 as "thighbone;" from Latin femur "thigh, upper part of the thigh," which is of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A thighbone. 2 A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The femur (, pl. femurs or femora ) or thighbone, is the most proximal (closest to the center of the body) bone of the leg in tetrapod vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles such as lizards, and amphibians such as frogs. In vertebrates with four legs such as dogs and horses, the femur is found only in the hindlimbs. The head of the femur articulates with the acetabulum in the pelvic bone forming the hip joint, while the distal part of the femur articulates with the tibia and kneecap forming the knee joint. By most measures the femur is the strongest bone in the body. The femur is also the longest bone in the body.
Usage examples of "femur".
My eyes were a little blurry as I ran them over her femur, acetabulum, ilium, sacrum, and so on.
Honorius the afrit leaped upon the bonnet of the car, femurs akimbo, hands on hip bones, skull cocked at a jaunty angle.
Left leg avulsed at pelvic articulation, femur analogue frame dented at supports 5, 8, and 13.
While he slept, Bazil continued to eat, working his way through a baked thigh, holding it up and chewing it down to the femur.
Weidenreich, director of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory at Beijing Union Medical College, also stated that there was no justification for attributing the femur and the skullcap to the same individual.
Glazed eyeballs on paper doilies, a big liver like a brazil-nut, crunchy marrow-filled femurs, a row of bean-shaped kidneys, a king-size penis coyly curled against its testicles, chewy ropes of muscles, big squares of skin rolled up like apricot leather?
From the top of the Late Pliocene Chapadmalalan layers, Ameghino extracted the femur of a toxodon, an extinct South American hoofed mammal, resembling a furry, short-legged, hornless rhinoceros.
An exploded shell passed through the hamstring muscles of the right thigh and embedded itself in the ligamentous tissues of the internal condyle of the femur.
Massive head injury, multiple rib fractures, a tension pneumothorax of the right lung, two fractured femurs, and a fractured pelvis.
In another case, in a white male of thirty, the same author successfully performed a hip-amputation for a large sarcoma of the left femur.
Keen reports the successful performance of a hip-joint amputation for malignant disease of the femur during pregnancy.
Eugene Bertrand reported to the Anthropological Society of Paris that he found parts of a human skull, along with a femur, tibia, and some foot bones, in a quarry on the Avenue de Clichy.
In 1868, Eugene Bertrand reported to the Anthropological Society of Paris that he found parts of a human skull, along with a femur, tibia, and some foot bones, in a quarry on the Avenue de Clichy.
Although most scientists would never dream of it, one could consider attributing the Koobi Fora femurs to a hominid very much like modern Homo sapiens, living in Africa about 2 million years ago.
THE BONES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, sixty in number, are classed as follows: The Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsus, Metatarsus, and Phalanges.