What is a femur?
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What is a femur?
Your thighbone (femur) is the longest and strongest bone in your body. The femoral shaft runs from below the hip to where the bone begins to widen at the knee.
What is the anatomical leg?
In human anatomy, the lower leg is the part of the lower limb that lies between the knee and the ankle. The thigh is between the hip and knee and makes up the rest of the lower limb….Thigh.
| Movement | Muscles (in order of importance) |
|---|---|
| Extension | •Quadriceps femoris •Tensor fasciae latae* |
Where is the thigh bone?
upper leg
The thigh bone/femur constitutes the upper leg, that part of the leg above the knee. As compared to the lower leg which boasts two bones (the tibia and the fibula), the upper leg has only one bone, the femur, but a very large bone it is, the largest in the human body.
Where are the thighs?
In human anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip (pelvis) and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb. The single bone in the thigh is called the femur.
What is the back of your thigh called?
hamstring muscles
The thigh has three sets of strong muscles: the hamstring muscles in the back of the thigh, the quadriceps muscles in the front, and the adductor muscles on the inside.
What part is the thigh?
In human anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip (pelvis) and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb. The single bone in the thigh is called the femur….
| Thigh | |
|---|---|
| Latin | femur |
| MeSH | D013848 |
| TA98 | A01.1.00.035 |
| TA2 | 160 |
What is the scientific name of the kneecap?
The patella is the kneecap bone. It lies within the quadriceps tendon. This large tendon from the powerful thigh muscles (quadriceps) wraps round the patella and is attached to the top of the lower leg bone (tibia).
What are the muscles called at the front of the thigh called?
Quadriceps
Quadriceps include four large muscles located in the front of the thigh: vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, and rectus femoris.
What is upper thigh called?
Like the forearm, the upper leg, or thigh, has a dense arrangement of many muscles. On the anterior side, the most prominent of the muscles are the sartorius muscle and the four muscles that make up quadriceps muscle group (the “quads”.)
What is the anatomical term for the hip region?
coxa
In vertebrate anatomy, hip (or “coxa” in medical terminology) refers to either an anatomical region or a joint. The hip region is located lateral and anterior to the gluteal region, inferior to the iliac crest, and overlying the greater trochanter of the femur, or “thigh bone”.
What is the outer thigh muscle called?
vastus lateralis
The rectus femoris muscle occupies the middle of the thigh, covering most of the other three quadriceps muscles. It originates on the ilium. It is named for its straight course. The vastus lateralis muscle is on the lateral side of the femur (i.e. on the outer side of the thigh).
What is groin area?
The groin is the area in the body where the upper thighs meet the lowest part of the abdomen. Normally, the abdomen and groin are kept separate by a wall of muscle and tissue.
Why is the thigh the strongest bone?
According to the BBC, the leg bones collectively, part of the appendicular skeleton, are the strongest bones in the human body because they are used to support the entirety of the human body’s substantial weight. Of these, a single bone, the femur or thigh bone is the longest, heaviest and strongest.
Is the thigh bone the largest bone in the human body?
The strongest, longest, and largest bone in the human body is the femur, or thigh bone, which is a bone in the leg that runs from the knee to the hip.
What are the bones that make up the thighs?
Vastus lateralis
What is the anatomical name for the thigh bone?
Anatomical terms of bone. [edit on Wikidata] The femur (/ˈfiːmər/, pl. femurs or femora /ˈfɛmərə/) or thigh bone, is the proximal bone of the hindlimb in tetrapod vertebrates.