Femur meaning

fēmər
femora femurs
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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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The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.
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The largest, longest, and heaviest bone in the body, extending from the hip to the knee; thighbone.
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The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.
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The long bone of the thigh or of the upper portion of the hind leg.
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(anatomy) A thighbone.
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A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.
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A long leg segment in various animals, connecting the leg to the body.
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Singular:
femur
Plural:
femora, femurs

Origin of femur

  • Latin thigh

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin femur, (genitive feminis (“thigh”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dhonu (“fir”). More at tan.

    From Wiktionary

Femur Sentence Examples

  • There is a slight ridge on the femur in the place of a third trochanter.

  • It is remarkable that it should persist in the spectacled bear of the Andes, although it has disappeared in all other living members of the group. The third trochanter of the femur, on the other hand, can scarcely be regarded as primitive, seeing that it is absent in several of the lower groups of mammals.

  • The vertebrae of the neck unite by nearly flat surfaces, the humerus has lost the foramen, or perforation, at the lower end, and the third trochanter to the femur may also be wanting.

  • 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.

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