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  2. Human leg - Wikipedia

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    The sensory femoral branch supplies the skin below the inguinal ligament, while the mixed genital branch supplies the skin and muscles around the sex organ. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (L2, L3) leaves psoas major laterally below the previous nerve, runs obliquely and laterally downward above the iliacus, exits the pelvic area near the ...

  3. Femur - Wikipedia

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    The femur (/ ˈ f iː m ər /; pl.: femurs or femora / ˈ f ɛ m ər ə /), [1] [2] or thigh bone, is the only bone in the thigh — the region of the lower limb between the hip and the knee. In many four-legged animals the femur is the upper bone of the hindleg.

  4. List of human anatomical features - Wikipedia

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    Anatomists divide the lower limb into the thigh (the part of the limb between the hip and the knee) and the leg (which refers only to the area of the limb between the knee and the ankle). The thigh is the femur and the femoral region. The kneecap is the patella and patellar while the back of the knee is the popliteus and popliteal area.

  5. Body of femur - Wikipedia

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    In human anatomy, the body of femur (or shaft of femur) is the almost cylindrical, long part of the femur. It is a little broader above than in the center, broadest ...

  6. Femoral head - Wikipedia

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    The fovea capitis is located "slightly posterior and inferior to the center of the articular surface of the femoral head (Cerezal)" Unlike the head of the femur, the fovea capitis lacks any hyaline cartilage. The fovea capitis may contain vascular canals in two-thirds of individuals, but "their contribution to femoral head vascularity varies.

  7. Upper extremity of femur - Wikipedia

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    The head of femur, which articulates with the acetabulum of the pelvic bone, composes two-thirds of a sphere. It has a small groove or fovea, connected through the round ligament to the sides of the acetabular notch. The head of the femur is connected to the shaft through the neck or collum. The neck is 4–5 cm. long and the diameter is ...

  8. Femoral chordotonal organ - Wikipedia

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    The femoral chordotonal organ in the femur of the fruit fly. Left: A picture of the cells of femoral chordotonal organ (labeled with green fluorescent protein) in the femur of the fruit fly. Right: A drawing of a fruit fly showing the location of the femur and the tibia. The femoral chordotonal organ senses the movements and the position of the ...

  9. Femoral neck - Wikipedia

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    Designations of abnormal femur angles. In the female, in consequence of the increased width of the pelvis, the neck of the femur forms more nearly a right angle with the body than it does in the male. It is smaller in short than in long bones, and when the pelvis is wide.

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