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Femur's place
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thigh
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. (from 8th c.) 2 That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a thigh/hip/ankle etc bone ▪ He was so thin that his hip bones were sticking out. chicken breast/thigh/wing ▪ Chop the chicken breast into pieces. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE hard ▪ His hard thighs brushed hers ...
Usage examples of thigh.
She showed me a large bruise on her left thigh and healing abrasions on her left knee.
She grasped his shoulders then, moving her legs, reveling in the abrasive feel of his hair roughened skin against the softness of her thighs.
Autenreith mentions metastasis of milk through an abdominal abscess to the thigh, and Balthazaar also mentions excretion of milk from the thigh.
Knackstedt has seen an abscess of the thigh which contained eight pounds of milk.
Carefully, he swung onto the downdeck ladder and climbed down three levels, feeling the increased acceleration in his thighs.
Nay, he decided, forcing himself to ignore the pulsing hardness between his thighs and the churning of his blood which ached for the satisfaction that only her body could provide.
The weapon disappeared in a blur of armored skirts and the blocky, powerful thighs of Clodius Afer, lunging between Vibulenus and death.
That affecting the large nerve supplying the thigh and leg is termed sciatica.
Sparks toyed with the agates at his belt ends, striking them against his thigh like a whip, grimacing at each blow.
Seregil, showing Alec deep indentations in the lean muscle on either side of his left thigh.
Laying aside the first branch, Nysander passed the birch switch through the flame and water and struck Alec lightly on his cheeks, shoulders, chest, thighs, and feet, then snapped the stick in two.
Her napkin fell down, and in returning it to her I pressed her thigh amorously, and could not detect the slightest displeasure on her features.
Although the anesthetic worked, Liston operated with his customary speed, single-handedly amputating the leg at the thigh in exactly twenty-eight seconds.
There was so much of her, such incredibly long legs, such an extreme flow of line and volume, Beheim became entranced by the exaggerated perspectives available, gazing up at the equatorial swell of her belly toward the flattened mounds of her breasts with their dark oases of areola and turreted nipples, or down from her breasts toward the unruly pubic tuft between her thighs, in all reminding him by its smoothness of the sand sculpture of a sleeping giantess he had seen years before on a beach in Spain.
A slight young woman, Mary developed strong muscles in the forearms as she grasped the areolar tissue, sometimes making Daisy squeal, rolled the large muscles of the calf and thigh firmly both ways and kneaded the belly with the heel of her hand.