noun
pl. fe′murs or fem′o·ra- the largest, longest, and heaviest bone in the body, extending from the hip to the knee; thighbone
- a long leg segment in various animals, connecting the leg to the body
Origin of femur
Modern Latin from L, thigh
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Femur is defined as the thighbone, the longest and thickest bone in the body.
A bone in your body that goes from your pelvis to your knee and that helps you to walk by allowing you to move your leg from the hip to the knee is an example of a femur.
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pl. fe·murs, or fem·o·ra- a. A bone of the leg situated between the pelvis and knee in humans. It is the largest and strongest bone in the body.b. A functionally similar bone in the leg or hind limb of other vertebrates. Also called thighbone .
- The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.
Origin of femur
Latin thighTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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The long bone of the thigh or of the upper portion of the hind leg.
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From Latin femur, (genitive feminis (“thigh”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dhonu (“fir”). More at tan.
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femur - Medical Definition
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pl. femurs or femora (fĕm′ər-ə)- A bone of the leg situated between the pelvis and knee in humans. It is the largest and strongest bone in the body.
- A functionally similar bone in the leg or hind limb of other vertebrates. In these subsenses also called thighbone
- The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.
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Sentence Examples
- There is a slight ridge on the femur in the place of a third trochanter.
- Iv.), and the pelvis and another femur (vii.
- This, when fully developed, consists of two parts, but inserted by a single ribbon-like tendon upon the hinder surface of the femur, near the end of its first third; the caudal part, femoro-caudalis, expressed by Garrod by the symbol A, arises from transverse processes of the tail; the iliac part (accessorofemoro-caudal of Garrod, with the symbol B), arises mostly from the outer surface of the postacetabular ilium.
- The most generalized type is Coryphodon, representing the family Goryphodontidae, from the lower Eocene of Europe and North America, in which there were 44 teeth, and no horn-like excrescences on the long skull, while the femur had a third trochanter.
- It may also be noticed that in mammals and birds which hop on two legs, such as jerboas, kangaroos, thrushes and finches, the proportionate length of the thigh-bone or femur to the tibia and foot (metatarsus and toes) is constant, being 2 to 5; in animals, on the other hand, such as hares, horses and frogs, which use all four feet, the corresponding lengths are 4 to 7.
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