How to Use femoral in a Sentence

femoral

adjective
  • The hole is positioned at the femoral condyles, the round parts of the thigh bone.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Ringer threaded a fine-gauge catheter into Deuer’s femoral artery, through her body, and then into the brain to the aneurysm.
    Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
  • The Double Jeopardy star suffered a fracture of the femoral condyle over the summer.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Frank Anaya severely cut his leg and femoral artery while battling the brush fire.
    Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2017
  • There were the injuries, including a femoral stress fracture that forced her to drop out of the 2012 Olympic marathon less than three miles in.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Chapman, a two-time Platinum Glove winner, had surgery to repair a torn right hip labrum with a cleanup of the femoral head.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The thickness of Eberle’s bones didn’t allow the femoral head to roll properly.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Brown said about shattering a leg, which contains the major femoral artery.
    Chris Haire, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Zimetbaum threaded catheters into the right and left femoral vessels in my groin and up into my heart.
    The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Many knee braces also feature a hole in the front, which Dr. Hummer says is useful for patellar femoral pain.
    Jack Byram, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Further imaging of the hip revealed a mild femoral head impaction fracture.
    oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
  • After six months in space, the proximal femoral bone in the leg can ditch around 10 percent of its mass, requiring years of recovery back on the ground.
    Sarah Scoles, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Anysia Brooks said her brother's two friends also were hit by the gunfire - one of them in the femoral artery- and both remained hospitalized on Tuesday.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 5 July 2017
  • However, his season will be over after a distal femoral osteotomy is performed at the end of the month.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • He was diagnosed with three femoral arterial blood clots, which were cutting off blood flow to his left foot.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Rival lizards can smell these chemicals, called femoral secretions, with a simple flick of their tongues.
    Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • The results of his work led other physicians to use the femoral vein, deep within the thigh, to reach the inferior vena cava, which carries blood from the legs, feet and abdomen to the heart.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Dr. Bukur punctured Ms. Williams’s thigh, threaded a slim tube into her femoral artery and eased it up about 12 inches into her aorta, the major artery that carries blood from the heart to most of the body.
    Denise Grady, New York Times, 19 June 2017
  • Once the airstrike ended, Esmat tried to suture Amin’s severed femoral artery on a makeshift operating table, but to no avail.
    Matthieu Aikins, New York Times, 17 May 2016
  • In the lower limbs, for example, at least five nerves could be entrapped: the peroneal, tibial, rural, femoral, and sciatic.
    Elizabeth Carey, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The Frenchman hasn't seen any game time in 2018 so far after suffering a biceps muscle femoral injury to his right leg in El Clasico.
    SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Motor vehicle accident-type force with the hip in an unusual position is required to make the femoral head come out of the socket.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • The patient was able to go home shortly after the catheter was removed because his doctors decided to use the radial artery in his arm, rather than the femoral artery in his leg, to access his heart.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • Blood from the femoral vein in her groin was drawn into the ECMO machine, which acted as an artificial lung, adding oxygen to the blood and removing carbon dioxide.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • These photos taken a couple of months ago from an emergency procedure femoral hernia, not one but four! 6 hours waiting close by.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • There is no single method, but in a typical scenario, fluid containing formaldehyde is pumped into the carotid artery, which forces blood and other fluids in the corpse out of a tube in the jugular or femoral vein.
    Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Unable to dispatch her with the garrote, the killer got up, retrieved a 10-inch knife from her kitchen and proceeded to ‘slice, dice and butcher’ her, ultimately severing her femoral artery.
    Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Then, around 2005, came published reports of two rare but terrifying side effects: osteonecrosis of the jaw and a bizarre breaking of the leg bone called atypical femoral fracture (AFF).
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Athletes have increased bone density by 2 to 5 percent over a one-year period, and the number of bone stress injuries has decreased, including high-risk injuries like the femoral neck, pelvis, and sacrum.
    Christine Yu, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The motion called on the medical examiner to immediately draw blood from Williams' left and right femoral vein in the leg, left and right subclavian veins near the clavicle and left and right ventricles of the heart.
    Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2017

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