Sample Sentences forfemur (auto-selected)
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Her arthritis is so bad there is no cartilage between her femur and tibia.femur = thigh bone
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Pa had fought in Germany in the Second World War, where his left femur caught shrapnel and shattered, their last source of pride. (source)
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The tibia was strong, and considerably longer than the femur.† (source)
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The children watch engineers use pulleys to lift a fossilized dinosaur femur.† (source)
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I learned that the bones in the leg are the femur, the tibia, the patella, and the fibula.† (source)
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Coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus.† (source)
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We'd been trained to jab it into the thigh to get a sample from inside the femur.† (source)
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No skulls or femurs, at least.† (source)
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Skin and bones dancing, lips upcurled like oyster shells, a no-count man with a femur in his hair.† (source)
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Femurs, shinbones, skulls—the dismembered fossils of many hundreds of people, heaped up in no apparent order.† (source)
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Twelve years ago, he was a professional hockey player better known as the Slammer, until he shattered his femur against another player's head.† (source)
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The main body of the chandelier was formed by spinal columns, fused together; femurs and tibias dripped like decoration from the arms of the fixture, which swooped up to cradle human skulls, each holding a massive taper.† (source)
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Groans were mixed in with the cheers, but most everyone got to their feet and ambled toward the bonfire now blazing in the distance, where Nico di Angelo stood silhouetted in the flames, preparing rows of marshmallows on what looked like femur bones.† (source)
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She heard the yammer of police cars pulsing in stalled traffic and saw a hundred subway riders come up out of the tunnels accompanied by workers in incandescent vests and she watched the tourists snapping pictures and thought of the trip she'd made to Rome many years ago, for study and spiritual renewal, and she'd swayed beneath the great domes and prowled the catacombs and church basements and this is what she thought as the riders came up to the street, how she'd stood in a subterranean chapel in a Capuchin church and could not take her eyes off the skeletons stacked there, wondering about the monks whose flesh had once decorated these metatarsals and femurs and skulls, many skulls heaped† (source)
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Worth a broken femur?† (source)
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An import-export firm bought the bones, sold them to a fertilizer enterprise, which may have used one or two femurs for laboratory tests but eventually decided to phase entirely into menhaden instead and transferred the remaining several tons to a holding company, which stored them in a warehouse outside of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for maybe a year before Beaconsfield got interested.† (source)
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