Femoral: alternatives and connections

the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint

a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony subs…

Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other…

An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part.

Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.

the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural…

That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.

Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery…

One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

of Femur

The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.