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A femoral fracture is a bone fracture that involves the femur.They are typically sustained in high-impact trauma, such as car crashes, due to the large amount of force needed to break the bone.
A hip fracture is a break that occurs in the upper part of the femur (thigh bone), at the femoral neck or (rarely) the femoral head. [2] Symptoms may include pain around the hip, particularly with movement, and shortening of the leg. [2]
The leg is the entire lower limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh or sometimes even the hip or buttock region. The major bones of the leg are the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone), and adjacent fibula.
“A democracy is dependent on having guys that will come forward and put their right hand in the air and volunteer and do things that others decide [need] to be done,” he said. “You have to have a military that will do things, regardless.” Blood Under His Fingernails. Outside of Marjah, Afghanistan, January 2010.
Crews began the complex job of lifting American Airlines Flight 5432 from the Potomac River after it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.
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. ...
The flight was under the command of 42-year-old Captain Park Yong-chul (Korean: 박용철; Hanja: 朴鏞喆) [6] The captain had close to 9,000 hours of flight time, including 3,192 on the Boeing 747, and had recently received a flight safety award for successfully landing a 747 that had suffered an engine failure at low altitude. [7]
Martinair Flight 138 was a charter flight of Martinair from Surabaya to Jeddah with stopover in Colombo.On 4 December 1974, the Douglas DC-8 operating the flight crashed into a mountain shortly before landing, killing all 191 people aboard – 182 passengers, all of whom were Indonesian Hajj pilgrims, and nine crew members. [1]