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  • Illustration: Transverse Section of Bone from the Shaft of the Femur ...where do you enter into me, my God?

    My Confessions Fresca 2010

  • Femur length measuring short at sixth percentile, within the curve of normality.

    Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009

  • When I further researched replacing my hipness, it turned out that they were talking about my HIP -- operating on my upper Femur or coating my Pelvic socket with Titanium.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • ERnursey talks about taking care of a patient who had an unfortunate experience on a snowmobile in her post, Femur Fracture.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Mother Jones RN 2007

  • ERnursey talks about taking care of a patient who had an unfortunate experience on a snowmobile in her post, Femur Fracture.

    Change of Shift: Volume 1, Number 24 Mother Jones RN 2007

  • I was born some seven years after my youngest sibling, Femur.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • I was born some _seven years_ after my youngest sibling, Femur.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Femur - ora: the thigh: usually the stoutest segment of the leg, articulated to the body through trochanter and coxa and bearing the tibia at its distal end: in Coccidae and quite commonly, the femur and trochanter are considered as one, for measuring purposes.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Femur, n., _thigh_, usually forms its oblique cases from the stem femor -, but sometimes from the stem femin -.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • “Significance of the Inner Architecture of the Distal Part of the Femur.

    II. Osteology. 6c. 3. The Femur 1918

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