femur

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The femur is called "femur" instead of "leg bone #1.

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the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

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noun

the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for femur.

noun

the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

Example sentences

The femur is called "femur" instead of "leg bone #1.

Died from a broken femur, how is that something so simple can just kill a person?

And "injury" probably runs the gamut from sprained ankle to "oh look, my femur is poking through my pants"

Both of my wrists were broken along with the femur in my right leg. Initially, they thought that my nose and ankle were also broken but that turned out to not be the case.

Love it so much yet, i messed up my shoulder, broke an ankle, fractured a femur trying to do what i like and hopefully get better at.

Medical care funding can bankrupt you in the US, but it cannot prevent you from having a broken femur fixed.

Draw a femur in anatomy, trig--draw a funny looking triangle.

Maybe a since extinct giant beaver, carnivore rodent species was chewing into the femur to create a notch to secure it to another bone while framing out it’s bone, beaver den.

I just don't know how to respond to the idea that there's minimal value in removing infected bone fragments from a child's femur, and so I'm not going to pretend that there's a useful discussion you and I can have about this.

Intrabuccal administration allows for therapeutic delivery of very low and safe levels of EMF throughout the body as exemplified by responses observed in the femur, liver, adrenal glands, and lungs.