thighbone
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bone structures
acetabular
acetabulum
acromial
acromioclavicular
acromion
foramen magnum
frontal bone
glenoid
gnathic
gynecoid
osteology
osteophyte
osteotomy
parietal
parietal bone
tibiotalar
TMJ
trapezoidal
triquetrum
true rib

Examples from literature

At the top of the leg is the femur. 
The femur was broken near the hip. 
The left scapula is fractured, likewise the clavicle, and there is a compound fracture of the femur. 
The myeloma is most often met with between the ages of twenty-five and forty in the upper end of the tibia or lower end of the femur. 
There are wide differences in the shape of the skull, thorax, femur, and even the liver. 
These discs surround the tibial spine and are otherwise shaped to fit perfectly between the articular portions of the femur and tibia. 

Examples of femur

femur
From left to right, the left tibia, the right femur, the left humerus, the left ulna and the left radius.
A significant positive correlation between the length of fore femur and the number of scales was detected in all treatments (table 6).
Those males with the longest fore femora were collected from five plant taxa, most of them indigenous (fig. 2b).
Congenital anomalies included ankylosis between the right femur and its ischium in an individual in early infancy.
Several studies are seriously long-run, and in addition to thoughts about femurs and average temperatures, there are some other new ideas.
The wing femur and pronotum-depth head-width ratios were determined for locusts collected in 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933.
The potbelly vessel was found on the left femur.
Suppose that you are a doctor performing an operation to fixate a femur fracture.
Improvements of about 3% relative to controls were achieved in the spine, femur and radius.
Walking legs poorly preserved but all legs on left side preserved down to femur.
They are seen at the scapula, ribs, pelvis, proximal part of the inner margin of the femur and the proximal ulna.
The length of the hind tibia was measured from the dorsal apex of the femur to the dorsal apex of the tibia.
The relative lengths of the femora, tibiae, and tarsi of the hind leg are as follows :-46 : 55 :17.
Other skeletal elements such as parts of a femur found in this fissure are probably from this crocodile.
An increase in the proportion of wild boar alleles across the genome increased length versus width of femur and reduced the prevalence of osteochondrosis.
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