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femur
/ˈfimɚ/
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What does femur mean?
noun
- A thighbone.
- The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
- A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
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Other Indonesian peoples have a longer upper arm than the Ulu Ayars, who also have the tibia shorter in proportion to the femur.
The legs are likewise shorter; and they present this remarkable peculiarity, that in every Aymara measured, the femur is actually shorter than the tibia.
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Ameghino in Buenos Ayres has awakened the fossil primates of the Pampas formation to new life; he even believes that in Tetraprothomo, represented by a femur, he has discovered a direct ancestor of man.
THE REGION OF THE THIGH is formed by the femur, the largest long bone in the body.
Soon afterward at Williamsburg, Va., he was shot in the thigh, the ball passing through the middle third external to the femur.