femur

IPA: fˈimɝ

(anatomy) A thighbone.
(entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
(arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Examples of "femur" in Sentences

Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to break a femur?
The neck of the femur is shortened and its angle diminished.
The man suffered a shattered left femur from the gunshot, according to authorities.
Even more important, do not break a femur the weekend of the annual convention of American orthopedic surgeons.
Use a sturdy boning knife to locate the femur, which is visible at the top of the ham and runs to the ball joint.
A section of blue whale jaw was once ‘discovered’ at Loch Ness and misidentified as the femur of an immense, hitherto undiscovered tetrapod.
Bisecting the main room is a floor-to-ceiling femur from a prison production of "King Kong" (bought secondhand) which stands against the wall.
I found published tables of data on limb proportions, where it turned out that indriid lemurs are closer to Homo in femur: tibia: pes ratios than any other primates.
A large incomplete rodent femur from a Quaternary cave deposit near Barahona, Puerto Rico, is established as the holotype of Tainotherium valei, a new extinct genus and species.