FEMUR
\fˈiːmə], \fˈiːmə], \f_ˈiː_m_ə]\
Definitions of FEMUR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Thigh-bone; the long bone of the thigh. articulating with the innominate bone above and the tibia and patella below. 2. The thigh.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The proximal bone of the hind limb in man and vertebrates; the third joint in an insect's leg counting from the proximal end.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The thigh (q. v.) Also, the thigh bone, Os fem'oris, (F.) Los de la Cuisse. The strongest and longest of all the bones of the body, extending from the pelvis to the tibia, and forming the solid part of the thigh. The femur is cylindrical, slightly curved anteriorly, unsymmetrical and oblique downwards and inwards. The body of the bone is prismatic, and has, behind, a prominent ridge, the linea aspera. The femur ossifies from five points: - one on each process of the pelvic extremity; one in the body of the bone; and two on the condyles. It is articulated with the pelvis, tibia, and patella. See Thigh.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
