FEMUR (femora)

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Irregular inflected form: femora   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does femur mean? 

• FEMUR (noun)
  The noun FEMUR has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FEMUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

femoris; femur; thighbone

Hypernyms ("femur" is a kind of...):

leg bone (a bone of the leg)

Meronyms (parts of "femur"):

lateral condyle (a condyle on the outer side of the lower extremity of the femur)

medial condyle (a condyle on the inner side of the lower extremity of the femur)

trochanter (one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached)

Holonyms ("femur" is a part of...):

thigh (the part of the leg between the hip and the knee)

Derivation:

femoral (of or relating to or near the femur or thigh)

 Context examples 

A joint connecting the lower part of the femur with the upper part of the tibia.

(Knee Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

The superior portion of the tibia that joins with the fibula, femur and patella at the knee joint.

(Head of the Tibia, NCI Thesaurus)

A large, irregular, quadrilateral area of bone found at the neck of the femur.

(Great Trochanter, NCI Thesaurus)

It often involves the long bones (particularly distal femur, proximal tibia, and proximal humerus).

(Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A reactive, benign fibrous lesion that develops in the periosteum of the femur.

(Periosteal Desmoid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually affects the distal posterior femur, the proximal tibia, and proximal humerus.

(Parosteal Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It affects the long bones and most commonly, the distal femur, proximal tibia, and proximal humerus.

(Conventional Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic or pathologic injury to the femur in which the continuity of the femur is broken.

(Femur Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of all or part of the leg, made at any point of the femur.

(Above-Knee Amputation, NCI Thesaurus)

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Jessica Oswald and her colleagues extracted and sequenced genetic material from the 2,500-year-old C. creightoni femur.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)