thigh bones

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• thigh bone — noun The bone of the leg between the hip joint and the knee, the femur • • • Main Entry: ↑thigh * * * thigh bone UK US noun [countable] [singular thigh bone plural …   Useful english dictionary

• thigh bone — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms thigh bone : singular thigh bone plural thigh bones a femur …   English dictionary

• Thigh bone — The thigh bone in anatomy is called the femur. Whichever term you care to use thigh bone or femur, it is the bone in the leg that extends from the hip to the knee. The thigh bone/femur constitutes the upper leg, that part of the leg above the… …   Medical dictionary

• thigh·bone — /ˈθaıˌboʊn/ noun, pl bones [count] : the long bone in the upper part of the leg : ↑femur …   Useful english dictionary

• Dem Bones — Dem Bones, Dry Bones or Dem Dry Bones is a well known traditional spiritual song, used to teach basic anatomy to children. The melody was written by African American author and songwriter James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). Two versions of this… …   Wikipedia

• hook bones — Hook Hook (h[oo^]k; 277), n. [OE. hok, AS. h[=o]c; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. h[=a]ko, h[=a]go, h[=a]ggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. {Arquebuse}, {Hagbut}, {Hake}, {Hatch} a half door, {Heckle}.] 1. A piece of metal, or other… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• List of bones of the human skeleton — A typical adult human skeleton commonly consists of 206, 208 or more bones depending on the method used in counting. The count of 208 considers the sternum to be made up of three bones instead of one; manubrium, body of sternum also known as… …   Wikipedia

• To be upon the bones of — Bone Bone (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• To make no bones — Bone Bone (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Bone, thigh — The thigh bone in anatomy is called the femur. Whichever term thigh bone or femur you care to use, it is the bone in the leg that extends from the hip to the knee. The thigh bone/femur constitutes the entire upper leg, all of the leg above the… …   Medical dictionary

• Epipubic bones — are a pair of bones which project forward from the pelvic bones of modern marsupials and of some fossil mammals multituberculates, monotremes, and even eutherians (the ancestors of placental mammals). [cite web |… …   Wikipedia