the longest thickest bone of the human skeleton, articulating with the pelvis above and the knee below
Nontechnical name: thighbone
2.
the corresponding bone in other vertebrates
3.
the segment of an insect's leg nearest to the body
Word origin
C18: from Latin: thigh
Examples of 'femora' in a sentence
femora
They received four dumbbell-shaped implants in the metaphyseal parts of the femora.
Manuel Lingner, Roland Seidling, Lars Johannes Lehmann, Eckhard Mauermann, Udo Obertacke,Markus Ludwig Rupert Schwarz 2018, 'Osseointegrative effect of rhBMP-2 covalently bound on a titan-plasma-spray-surfaceafter modification with chromosulfuric acid in a large animal bone gap-healing modelwith the Göttingen minipig', Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Researchhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13018-018-0915-x. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In femora, it diminished the biomechanical properties and calcium-to-phosphate ratio.
Dominik Saul, Marie Weber, Marc Hendrik Zimmermann, Robyn Laura Kosinsky, Daniel BerndHoffmann, Björn Menger, Stefan Taudien, Wolfgang Lehmann, Marina Komrakova, StephanSehmisch 2019, 'Effect of the lipoxygenase inhibitor baicalein on bone tissue and bone healing inovariectomized rats', Nutrition & Metabolismhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12986-018-0327-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Fifty one hemipelvis, 40 humeri, 39 radioulnae, 40 femora, and 41 tibiae were measured.
Cristian Kaufmann, G. Lorena L'Heureux 2009, 'El dimorfismo sexual en guanacos (Lama guanicoe). Una evaluación osteométrica deelementos poscraneales', Revista del Museo de Antropologiahttp://publicaciones.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/23/159. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In the present study, measurements on the adult human dry femora have been carried out.
Prabha Nand Chaudhary, V S Shirol, Rajendra D Virupaxi 2017, 'A morphometric study of femoral length, anterior neck length, and neck-shaft anglein dry femora: A cross-sectional study', Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEUhttp://www.ijournalhs.org/article.asp?issn=2542-6214;year=2017;volume=10;issue=3;spage=331;epage=334;aulast=Chaudhary. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Healing was followed clinically and femora were evaluated radiographically, periodically.
Marcelo Meller Alievi, João Eduardo Wallau Schossler, Luciana Dambrósio Guimarães,Ana Néri Christo de Oliveira, Carolina Kist Traeslel, Patrícia Almeida Ferreira 2007, 'Implante ósseo cortical alógeno conservado em mel na reconstrução de falha óssea diafisáriaem fêmur de cães: avaliação clínica e radiográfica Honey preserved cortical allograftsin the repair of diaphyseal femoral defect in dogs: clinical and radiographic evaluation',Ciência Ruralhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782007000200024. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Aspect ratios were calculated to determine whether the shapes of the femora differed among ethnicities.
Gaurav Sharma, MS(Orth), David Liu, FRACS, Rajesh Malhotra, MS(Orth), FRCS, Yi XinZhou, MD, PhD, Masao Akagi, MD, PhD, T.K. Kim, MD, PhD 2017, 'Availability of Additional Mediolateral Implant Option During Total Knee ArthroplastyImproves Femoral Component Fit Across Ethnicities', JBJS Open Accesshttp://journals.lww.com/jbjsoa/fulltext/10.2106/JBJS.OA.16.00014. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Females show conspicuous foliaceous lobes on the median femora.
Joachim Bresseel, Jérôme Constant 2015, 'The new genus of stick insect Lobofemora from Vietnam, with the description of threenew species (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Clitumnini)', European Journal of Taxonomyhttp://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/237. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All data were compared between male and female femora.
Kun-Jhih Lin, Hung-Wen Wei, Kang-Ping Lin, Cheng-Lun Tsai, Pei-Yuan Lee 2014, 'Proximal Femoral Morphology and the Relevance to Design of Anatomically PrecontouredPlates: A Study of the Chinese Population', The Scientific World Journalhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/106941. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)