femoral
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈfɛmərəl/
- Specialized
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femoral
- The surgeon explained that the femoral artery is crucial for blood flow to the leg.
- femoral head
- femoral nerve
- femoral artery
OK, well, you probably have a femoral retroversion.
- OK, well, you probably have a femoral retroversion.
- And I know I had AI had an artery stent put in in my femoral artery.
- He's holding the femur or the femoral artery shot.
Examples
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If the girl was bleeding out her femoral artery, it had to be taken care of now.
Fiction book (2001) -
You know, I read somewhere that the best place... to find a pulse is in the femoral artery.
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OK, well, you probably have a femoral retroversion.
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- I think she hit the femoral artery!
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No bone, nowhere near the femoral artery, okay?
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I seem to have nicked your femoral artery there.
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Just a small laceration to the femoral artery.
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But he has two fresh avulsions near the femoral artery.
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You're really lucky, or this would have hit the femoral artery.
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It hit my femoral artery, and you know, bleeding out was the big worry of that day.
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.2
A large blood vessel in the thigh that carries blood back to the heart
- Specialized
A muscle at the back of the thigh that bends the knee and turns the lower leg outward
- Specialized
A large bundle that carries messages from the lower spine to the front of the thigh
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Femoral comes from the Latin word femur, which means 'thigh'. So femoral describes things that belong to the thigh or the 'thigh bone', such as the femur itself or a blood vessel there.