femur

Noun

Meaning

The thigh bone.

The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

femoris thighbone reed ham gammon hock marrowbone hip flank ankle groin femoral pubis loin caput
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Hypernyms

leg bone

Phrases with the word

congenital short femur his femur my femur open femur femur fibula ulna syndrome

Derivatives

femora

Anagrams

fumer

Examples

At the hospital doctors attempted to resuscitate Grace but because of the extent of not only her brain injury but injuries to her thorax and a femur fracture they were unable to save her life. Source: Internet

Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant was already defending the aircraft with an MP5 but was unable to move from his chair due to a crushed vertebra in his back and a compound fracture of his left femur. Source: Internet

After digging it out, they found out it was a femur. Source: Internet

Certainly in their morphology they are not jointed, and so lack the five segments (coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus) of thoracic insect legs. Source: Internet

He correctly identified the bone as the lower extremity of the femur of a large animal, and recognized that it was too large to belong to any known species. Source: Internet

Huxley by Wirgman a drawing in pencil, 1882 The lobed-finned fish (such as coelacanths and lung fish ) have paired appendages whose internal skeleton is attached to the shoulder or pelvis by a single bone, the humerus or femur. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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