femur

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Their goal was to estimate how much stress gravity and body weight placed on the femur when the animals stood on two legs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

Antonio shattered his femur in four different places after his Ferrari spun off the road and crashed into a tree in Epping Forest during Storm Darragh.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Researchers have so far recovered 49 bone pieces including a femur, vertebrae and ribs, it added.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

An MRI eventually revealed that the top of his femur, or thigh bone, was near fracture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

I learned that the bones in the leg are the femur, the tibia, the patella, and the fibula.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper