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The femur neck is a flattened pyramidal process of bone, connecting the head with the body, and forming with the latter a wide angle opening medialward. Image File history File links Gray243. ...
The femur or thigh bone is the longest, most voluminous, and strongest bone of the human body. ...
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The angle is widest in infancy, and becomes lessened during growth, so that at puberty it forms a gentle curve from the axis of the body of the bone. Puberty refers to the process of physical changes by which a childs body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. ...
In the adult, the neck forms an angle of about 125° with the body, but this varies in inverse proportion to the development of the pelvis and the stature.
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. The hand mirror and comb of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex. ...
The shield and spear of the Roman God Mars are often used to represent the male sex In heterogamous species, male is the sex of an organism, or of a part of an organism, which typically produces smaller, mobile gametes (spermatozoa) that are able to fertilise female gametes (ova). ...
The angle decreases during the period of growth, but after full growth has been attained it does not usually undergo any change, even in old age; it varies considerably in different persons of the same age.
It is smaller in short than in long bones, and when the pelvis is wide.
In addition to projecting upward and medialward from the body of the femur, the neck also projects somewhat forward; the amount of this forward projection is extremely variable, but on an average is from 12° to 14°.
The neck is flattened from before backward, contracted in the middle, and broader laterally than medially.
The vertical diameter of the lateral half is increased by the obliquity of the lower edge, which slopes downward to join the body at the level of the lesser trochanter, so that it measures one-third more than the antero-posterior diameter.
The medial half is smaller and of a more circular shape.
The anterior surface of the neck is perforated by numerous vascular foramina. In anatomy, a foramen is any opening. ...
Along the upper part of the line of junction of the anterior surface with the head is a shallow groove, best marked in elderly subjects; this groove lodges the orbicular fibers of the capsule of the hip-joint. Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ...
Bones of the Hip In anatomy, the hip is the bony projection of the femur, known as the greater trochanter, and the overlying muscle and fat. ...
The posterior surface is smooth, and is broader and more concave than the anterior: the posterior part of the capsule of the hip-joint is attached to it about 1 cm. above the intertrochanteric crest.
The superior border is short and thick, and ends laterally at the greater trochanter; its surface is perforated by large foramina.
The inferior border, long and narrow, curves a little backward, to end at the lesser trochanter.
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femur: head of femur (fovea capitis femoris) - neck of femur - greater trochanter - trochanteric fossa - lesser trochanter - tubercle of the femur - intertrochanteric line - intertrochanteric crest - linea quadrata - body of femur (linea aspera, third trochanter, pectineal line, adductor tubercle) - lower extremity of femur (lateral condyle, medial condyle, lateral epicondyle, medial epicondyle, patellar surface) Grays Anatomy illustration of a human femur. ...
In common usage, a human leg is the lower limb of the body, extending from the hip to the ankle, and including the thigh, the knee, and the cnemis. ...
The femur or thigh bone is the longest, most voluminous, and strongest bone of the human body. ...
The femur head which is globular and forms rather more than a hemisphere, is directed upward, medialward, and a little forward, the greater part of its convexity being above and in front. ...
Bones of the Hip In anatomy, the hip is the bony projection of the femur, known as the greater trochanter, and the overlying muscle and fat. ...
The Lesser Trochanter (small trochanter) of the femur is a conical eminence, which varies in size in different subjects; it projects from the lower and back part of the base of the neck. ...
The body of the femur (or shaft), almost cylindrical in form, is a little broader above than in the center, broadest and somewhat flattened from before backward below. ...
The linea aspera is a ridge of roughened surface on the posterior aspect of the femur, to which are attached muscles and intermusclular septa. ...
The medial lip of the linea aspera ends below at the summit of the medial condyle, in a small tubercle, the adductor tubercle, which affords insertion to the tendon of the Adductor magnus. ...
The lateral condyle is one of the two projections on the lower extremity of femur. ...
The medial condyle is one of the two projections on the lower extremity of femur. ...
patella The patella or kneecap is a thick, triangular bone which articulates with the femur and covers and protects the front of the knee joint. ...
tibia: upper extremity - medial condyle - lateral condyle - intercondyloid eminence - tuberosity of the tibia - posterior intercondyloid fossa - anterior intercondyloid fossa
body of tibia - lower extremity - medial malleolus This article is about the vertebrate bone. ...
The upper extremity of the tibia (or proximal extremity) is large, and expanded into two eminences, the medial condyle and lateral condyle. ...
Between the articular facets of the upper extremity of the tibia, but nearer the posterior than the anterior aspect of the bone, is the intercondyloid eminence (spine of tibia), surmounted on either side by a prominent tubercle, on to the sides of which the articular facets are prolonged; in front...
Posteriorly, the medial condyle and lateral condyle are separated from each other by a shallow depression, the posterior intercondyloid fossa, which gives attachment to part of the posterior cruciate ligament of the knee-joint. ...
The anterior intercondyloid fossa (or area) is the location where the anterior cruciate ligament attaches to the tibia. ...
The body of the tibia has three borders and three surfaces. ...
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fibula: head of fibula - body of fibula - lateral malleolus For other uses see fibula (disambiguation) The fibula or calf bone is a bone placed on the lateral side of the tibia, with which it is connected above and below. ...
The upper extremity or head of the fibula is of an irregular quadrate form, presenting above a flattened articular surface, directed upward, forward, and medialward, for articulation with a corresponding surface on the lateral condyle of the tibia. ...
The body of fibula presents four borders - the antero-lateral, the antero-medial, the postero-lateral, and the postero-medial; and four surfaces - anterior, posterior, medial, and lateral. ...
The lower extremity (distal extremity; external malleolus) of the fibula is of a pyramidal form, and somewhat flattened from side to side; it descends to a lower level than the medial malleolus. ...
tarsus: calcaneus (sustentaculum tali, trochlear process) - talus - cuboid - 1st cuneiform - 2nd - 3rd FIG. 268– Bones of the right foot. ...
The calcaneus is the large bone making up the heel of the human foot. ...
FIG. 270– Left talus, from above. ...
The cuboid bone is one of seven Tarsal bones. ...
metatarsus: 1st metatarsal - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th The metatarsus consists of the five long bones of the foot, which are numbered from the medial side (ossa metatarsalia I.-V.); each presents for examination a body and two extremities. ...
phalanges of the foot The phalanges of the foot correspond, in number and general arrangement, with those of the hand; there are two in the great toe, and three in each of the other toes. ...
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