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What is a femur?

What is a femur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
  2. A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.
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Most of what I found were unidentifiable broken sections of long bones, but I did find a bird femur and a nice rodent astragalus.
The trochanteric bursa is located over the lateral prominence of the greater trochanter of the femur.
One of the Americans found a few leg bones and freaked out so they told him it was a buffalo, but I could see it was a human femur and tibia.
The variations in femur morphology and bilateral symmetry observed among the three sample groups are not statistically different.
This has the effect of moving the femur farther forward than would be possible with an akinetic pelvis thereby increasing stride length.
The inferior gluteal artery also assists in forming the cruciate anastomosis that forms around the neck and greater trochanter of the femur.

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