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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur . ▪ Feel that Mr Twill may be called upon to lay down his femur after all. ▪ Fig. 3.8 Relative completeness of the humerus ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.