femur

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Until the person tripping breaks their femur, that is.

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  1. noun A bone of the leg situated between the pelvis and knee in humans. It is the largest and strongest bone in the body.
  2. noun A functionally similar bone in the leg or hind limb of a vertebrate animal. Also called thighbone.
  3. noun The thick, most muscular segment of the insect leg, situated between the trochanter and the tibia.

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  • Perhaps a femur, a tibia, or a scapula located in a remote corner of the globe? —  BEN BOVA Editor
  • The whine of a lasecutter as he took part of her femur, the slight pumping sound of the bloodvac. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • The pieces of Sarah's femur were aligned, some of the excess fluid was drained off, Sarah was given the calcium infusion into her legs that she would have received anyway had the rejuvenation process worked on her, and a small external support was erected around her leg—these days, only dinosaur bones were wrapped in plaster. —  AnalogSFF,December2006
  • Although it obeys the very same laws of engineering and physics as a mechanical device, a femur is not a mechanical device at all, but a reactive part of a living organism. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • Until the person tripping breaks their femur, that is. —  A Day In The Life
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  1. Latin, thigh.

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  1. Latin, rare nominative femus and femen (stem femor- and femin-) the thigh.
 

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