Used in a Sentence

femoral

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for femoral.

Editorial note

The blood is taken out of your body through the femoral vein (under the skin between your hip and your nether regions), taken through the perfusion machine and pumped back into the femoral artery.

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Quick take

Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of femoral gathered in one view.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for femoral.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh.

Example sentences

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The blood is taken out of your body through the femoral vein (under the skin between your hip and your nether regions), taken through the perfusion machine and pumped back into the femoral artery.

2

Not embarrassing that guy who spends every day putting in femoral nails decided not to put a femoral nail in when it came to his son.

3

Tear into the femoral artery and your target is going to be dead in just a few minutes.

4

Or worse -- metaphorically ripping open your entire femoral artery by alienating the majority of your users.

5

Leonid Boguslavsky started triathlon at 62 and had two femoral neck fractures because of it.

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The patient has post procedure back pain and lower extremity pain (likely femoral access for his angioplasty) and acute kidney injury.

7

When you are bleeding from the femoral artery, you don't have time to shop around, and you don't know when it will happen.

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Not sure what counts as surgery for everyone here, but having my femoral artery punctured counts if a <X>ologist does it to me.

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Extending his remarks, if you hit the femoral artery in someone's upper leg, they're going to quickly bleed out unless they get serious first aid.

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Like if you cut your femoral and gel up your leg.

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A team of students carefully threaded a wire in through my femoral artery, guided it up to the inside of the heart and zapped the problematic cells.

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The gold standard for detecting vessel blockage is angiogram- puncture the femoral or radial artery, feed a catheter to the top of the aorta and squirt some dye and then watch it on X-ray.

Quote examples

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This results in decreased stress shielding and subsequent favorable femoral remodeling." This new material might do well there..

2

Even placing stents during cardiac catheterization (PCIs or angioplasty) is 'minimally invasive' because typically access is achieved by the femoral artery and snaked up (the femoral comes "direct" from the heart, for all intents).

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> Personally I have a history of patello-femoral problems Look up "knees over toes guy".

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Instead of open surgery, a catheter and wire is passed through a needle in the patient’s groin into the femoral artery and fed upwards into the aneurysm by a radiology doctor–not a neurosurgeon–and the aneurysm is blocked off from the inside rather than clipped off from the outside." Wow.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use femoral in a sentence?

The blood is taken out of your body through the femoral vein (under the skin between your hip and your nether regions), taken through the perfusion machine and pumped back into the femoral artery.

What does femoral mean?

Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh.

What part of speech is femoral?

femoral is commonly used as adjective.