How to Use femur in a Sentence

femur

noun

• The ball portion is at the top of the thigh bone, or femur.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 25 June 2017
• The bullet lodged in his femur, and Gomez dropped to the ground.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
• One of my open femur fractures was mid-thigh down to the knee and over the top of the knee.
  — Bethany Levrier, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
• The impact broke his femur right through the growth plate.
  — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2019
• The pair crashed down a full flight of stairs, and her baby broke her femur.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
• The labrum cushions the hip and acts like a seal to hold the ball at the top of the femur (thigh bone) within the hip socket.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• One was part of a femur of a four-legged plant-eater called Scelidosaurus.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
• Then 30, he had been shot three times: twice in the hip and once in his right femur, which broke in three places.
  — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 24 Nov. 2020
• Some of the carvings on the femur bones depict a man holding a jade mask just like the one in the tomb.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• The femur and humerus bones in the man's legs and arms were shattered in a certain way, the researchers found.
  — Fox News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Sitting at the front of the knee joint, the patella tracks in a groove at the end of the femur (the patellofemoral joint) and enhances the extension of the knee.
  — Jonathan Cluett, Md, Verywell Health, 9 Nov. 2023
• Her left femur snapped at such a sharp angle that the jagged bone ripped through her skin.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024
• Hall, 31, suffered a wound to the left leg that fractured his femur.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 June 2019
• Her weight snapped the boy’s femur (thigh) bone, Rivarde said.
  — Michelle Hunter, nola.com, 26 June 2019
• The researchers studied injuries to the upper part of the leg, the femur, and the lower part, the tibia.
  — Will Dunham, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
• Both of her femurs were broken in the earthquake and set from the outside with boards and screws and wrapped in gauze.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• Part of the problem was how doctors attached the implant to the femur.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2019
• The force of the blow snapped his femur and smashed his internal organs.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• Examples of long bones include the bones of the leg and arm — like the femur and the fibula — as well as the bones of the fingers and toes.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The femur’s shape also gives us clues about what the world was like when Pachystruthio was alive.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 27 June 2019
• The Democrat fractured his left femur during a walk on the beach in Cape May in 2002.
  — Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• In 2007, a person found a femur bone while going for a walk.
  — Lauren Castle, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2020
• The thigh bone, or the femur, is rounded on its edge to fit inside the inward curve, or socket, of the pelvis.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• At the end of 2017, she was being treated for cancer in her femur and lung.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• Long bones like the femur can help give the stature, and, if the remains are from an adult, the pelvic bone will show whether the body is male or female.
  — Megan Cassidy, azcentral, 14 Mar. 2018
• His foot, full of nerves still fried from when the bullet shattered his femur, is aching.
  — Caroline Anders, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2020
• Davis suffered a broken femur, and a nasty gash on his head.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• The flow rate per gram in the femur of a two-kilogram hatchling Maiasaura was 15 times higher than that of the adults.
  — Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• Trochanteric bursitis affects the pointed upper, outside edge of the femur (the thigh bone), called the greater trochanter.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• Sign up The ants that returned to the nest were quickly approached by one or two comrades, which gnawed the leg above the femur, amputating it entirely.
  — Byhumberto Basilio, science.org, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024