"Femur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... each individual case. It contains only what is easy to be remembered, and omits those matters for which it is usual to refer to books. Thus two pages only are appropriated to fractures of the body and neck of the femur! and twenty-six for the whole subject of fractures, wounds, and six or eight of the most important diseases, of bones! Yet all this criticism is not without a compliment, well-merited at least by the former productions of the same ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
... cases in which it is applicable are comparatively rare; for, to be successful, the following conditions are essential:—1. That there be abundant skin in front of the knee-joint to make a long anterior flap; 2. That the patella and articular surface of the femur are healthy. These conditions at once exclude nearly every case of disease or accident. If the joint is diseased some amputation through the thigh must be attempted; if injured, and the front of the knee is safe, it may very likely be possible ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell
... perfect, and belonging to the femur: a fragment of the right 'scapula'; the anterior extremity of a rib of the right side; and the same part of a rib of the left side; the hinder part of a rib of the right side; and lastly, two hinder portions and one middle portion of ribs, which from their unusually ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley
... "Yes, and my femur of a rabbit," said Armine, "and said it was a nasty old bone, and the baker's Pincher ate it up; but I did find my turtle-dove's egg in the ash-heap, and discovered it over again, and you don't see it is broken now; it is stuck down on ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... basin-shaped support for the contents of the abdomen, but on the outside the bones are rough and irregular and provide many places for the attachment of muscles and ligaments. Each innominate bone has a deep, round socket into which the end of the femur (the long bone ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.
... cunabula Pallas Astitit; et dixit, mentis praesaga futurae, Heu, puer infelix! nostro sub sidere natus; Nam tu pectus eris sine corpore, corporis umbra; Sed levitate umbram superabis, voce cicadam: Musca femur, palmas tibi mus dedit, ardea crura. Corpore sed tenui tibi quod natura negavit, Hoc animi dotes supplebunt; teque docente, Nec longum tempus, surget tibi docta juventus, Artibus egregiis animas ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... 4. Femur, n., thigh, usually forms its oblique cases from the stem femor-, but sometimes from the stem femin-. ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett |
