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Definition of Femurs
1. femur [n] - See also: femur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Femurs
Literary usage of Femurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1862)
"... Luxations of the femurs in the same Individual. Observed by LECTOR Voss. ...
congenital dislocation of both femurs—a lesion which had been completely ..."
2. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"... but is increased greatly when the glutei allow the petru to tip forward on
the heads of the femurs, and is dragged into still Figs. H« and 149. ..."
3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1861)
"A case of Fracture of both femurs by muscular spasm. By Dr. FREDERICK D. LENTE.
(American Medical Times, July 21, I860.) The occurrence of fracture from ..."
4. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"Wait in Scull Castle, to receive, With open gates, your men ; Their right arms
nerved, their femurs clenched, Safe to protect ye then! " — IUd., p. 23. ..."
5. Rest and pain: A Course of Lectures on the Influence of Mechanical and by John Hilton (1891)
"This excessive widening of the pelvic brim would be prevented by the upward and
inward pressure of the femurs through the acetabula ..."
6. Conservative Surgery: As Exhibited in Remedying Some of the Mechanical by Henry Gassett Davis (1867)
"But, upon a little force being applied while the femurs were flexed, the trochanters
would occupy their proper place; but upon every effort to straighten ..."
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