The bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee in the vertebrate tetrapods, including humans.
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Examples for "femur "
Examples for "femur "
1 Kerry, 71, broke his right femur on Sunday while cycling in France.
2 The wound was perfectly round and the patella and femur were intact.
3 Nyssa heard the femur pop and took the meat extended to her.
4 The Kayan women have relatively a much longer femur than the men.
5 Nomograms of chest circumference versus gestational age and femur length were constructed.
1 A union bullet had shattered his thighbone and had partly crippled him.
2 The rib cage just to the left belonged with the thighbone yards away.
3 He picked up a thighbone and held it like a weapon.
4 Perhaps just a simple break in the lower thighbone .
5 Case report: A 59-year-old patient was treated for thighbone leiomyosarcoma, with surgical resection and adjuvant radiotherapy.
1 A second brought another to the earth with a broken thigh bone .
2 He thinks he can see the elephant's thigh bone on the bottom.
3 In the end it turned out that he had broken his thigh bone .
4 Your thigh bone , like the grasshopper's thigh, is called a femur.
5 They've got a thigh bone , it seems, nearly a yard long.
6 I've only a thigh bone to pick after this, and then I'm off.
7 With a nice little fracture of the thigh bone thrown in.
8 A contested thigh bone The year started with a bang.
9 The litmus test for gaging the size of the animal is the thigh bone .
10 A broken thigh bone was not going to stop Ingesson.
11 His thigh bone had been completely shattered by the bullet.
12 Lord Lindsay was shot through the thigh bone , and fell.
13 Captain Goad fell, his thigh bone broken by a bullet.
14 Wrenching agony announced the tearing loose of his thigh bone from his hip socket.
15 The thigh bone was shattered, splinters jutting through puffy flesh.
16 Take for example your femur bone, or thigh bone .
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