Noun
The thigh bone.
The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAt 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