In the year 1855, the tibia and femur of a large bird equalling at least the ostrich in size were found at Meudon, near Paris, at the base of the Plastic clay.
Portions of the metacarpus, metatarsus, tibia, and femur have been detected, and the determinations of Mr. Barrett have been confirmed by Professor Owen.
The upper extremity of the tibia, upon which the lower extremity of the femur rests.
There is no injury of the bone in this case, as the bullet lodged in the muscles posterior to the lower third of the femur without striking the bone.
The greatly deformed shrapnel balls and the slight chipping fracture of the femur indicate that the greater portion of the striking energy of the missiles was so dissipated in ricochet that but little force was left for attack on the bone.
Gunshot Fracture of the Shaft of the Femur with Lodgment of the Bullet.
The ball struck the border of the popliteal space of the femur just above the tuberosity, without energy enough to cause a fracture, deform the ball, or even to leave, as a mark of contact, metal particles of the ball.
The course of the shrapnel ball was from within outward, striking the femur with the energy of high (shrapnel) velocity, with fragmentation of the missile by impact on the bone.
The direct subtrochanteric impact disintegrated the missile and delivered all of its energy to the bone, with a resulting transverse fracture of the upper end of the shaft of the femur and longitudinal fragmentation of the shaft.
The position of the femur is in outward rotation, as shown by the full shadow of the lesser trochanter and the vanishing of the greater trochanter behind the shoulder of the neck.
By flexion, the inferior extremity of the femur is directed forwards; the bone of the thigh then takes a more oblique direction than the normal.
In birds, the femur is shorter than the bones of the leg; its great trochanter is in contact with a prominence which occupies the posterior part of the border of the cotyloid cavity.
The femur in this respect conforms to the law which we have indicated in connection with the bone of the arm, in which the development, as to length, is in proportion to the division of the hand.
On the inferior extremity of the femur are two condyles and a trochlea; the condyles are clearly separated from this latter by a marked constriction.
The great trochanter is large, and extends beyond the level of the plane in which the head of the femur is found.
The femur is longer than the bones of the leg; the great trochanter does not reach the level of the head of the femur.
But it should be understood that one part of this description--that which has relation to the leg--holds good only when the femur is in its normal condition, or in flexion.
The head of the femur is received in the cotyloid cavity; these are the osseous surfaces in contact in this articulation.
But the femur is then in a state of extension, and in regard to this latter the attitude of the leg is unchanged.
In flexion, the leg bends on the thigh; its inferior extremity is directed upwards and backwards; the angle which the tibia naturally forms with the femur becomes less obtuse.
It is therefore the portion which arises from the femur which does not exist.
If we compare the femur of certain animals with that of man, we see that the corresponding details of form are readily recognisable, but they are slightly modified.
On exhausting the air, the weight of the femur caused it to drop out of the socket, while the readmission of the air raised it to its place.
The shin bone, or tibia, the large, triangular bone on the inner side of the leg, articulates both with the femur and the foot by hinge joints.
The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird.
The femur often possesses a well visible pneumatic foramen on the median side of the proximal end of its shaft.
In many birds the insertion is shifted from the femur to the neck of the tibia, in which case the "accessory head" is said to be absent, a condition expressed by Garrod by the symbol X.
In making the hind leg, the iron should be no longer at the upper end than the end of the femur, and once this is determined the upper end of the femur must be cut off with a saw, to give room for the squares and two nuts.
The femur is articulated to the pelvis by a brass bolt.
For the hind legs, let the upper end of each rod project beyond the upper end of the femur for a distance equal to about two-thirds the length of that bone.
Usually there is an outward curvature of both femur and tibia, with at times an interior bend of the latter bone.
Normally in the erect posture the weight of the body is passed through the outer condyle of the femur rather than the inner, and this latter is lengthened to keep the plane of the knee-joint horizontal.
Radiogram of Upper End of Femurshowing appearances in Osteomyelitis Fibrosa.
Secondary cancer of bone is attended with pain, or it suddenly attracts notice by the occurrence of pathological fracture--as, for example, in the shaft of the femur or humerus.
The further progress is complicated by the occurrence of pyogenic infection leading to necrosis of bone, in the knee-joint, for example, the patella or one of the condyles of the femur or tibia, may furnish a sequestrum.
New Periosteal Bone on surface of Femur from Amputation Stump.
It is often found between the patella and the trochlear surface of the femurin tuberculous disease of the knee.
A, 1) with which the head of the femur articulates; all the bones except the pubis take part in its formation.
The femur has no third trochanter, and the tibia and fibula are distinct.
In living forms there is no trace of a posterior limb, but in Halitherium there is a vestigial femur connected with each half of the pelvis.
The femur has no third trochanter, and the fibula is complete and nearly equal in size to the tibia.
The humerus and femur are both short, while the radius and ulna, tibia and fibula are generally still further reduced to the form of short polygonal bones.
The Creodonta also differ from modern Carnivora in the fact that the scaphoid and lunar are usually separate, and that the femur has a third trochanter.
All three bones contribute largely to the formation of the =acetabulum=, with which the head of the femur articulates.
In the Pinnipedia the femur is short, broad and flattened, having a prominent great trochanter.
The femur has a third trochanter, and the feet resemble those of bears in being plantigrade and having pointed ungual phalanges, differing, however, in having the scaphoid and lunar distinct.
The Creodonta differ from all living Carnivores in having a femurwith a third trochanter.
The wasp deposits her egg on the outer surface of the femur of the cockroach's midleg.
The wasp egg was placed on the femurof the midleg.
While this operation is being performed in a case of wound of the popliteal artery, the haemorrhage may be arrested by compressing the femoral vessel, either against the femuror the os pubis.
The artery approaches the shaft of the femur near its middle; and in this place it may be readily compressed against the bone by the hand.
The Tibia, or shin bone, is enlarged at each extremity and articulates with the femur above and the astragalus, the upper bone of the tarsus, below.
The latter pair (flexor metatarsi, muscular and tendinous portions, because of their attachment to the external condyle of the femur and to the metatarsal bone) are enabled to automatically flex the tarsal joint when the stifle is flexed.
This is a comparatively rare injury in the horse because of the protection afforded the femur by the heavy musculature.
In this case autopsy revealed the fact that the inner portion (two-thirds) of the head of the femur had completely disappeared.
The mesial (internal) arises from the internal condyle of the femur and is attached to a rough area below the margin of the medial (internal) condyle of the tibia.
It is generally conceded that the neck of the femur is rarely broken because of a lack of constriction in this part, but fracture of the trochanters has been recorded rather frequently.
The femeropelvic articulation is formed by the hemispherical head of the femur and the acetabulum; the latter constituting a cotyloid cavity which is deepened by the cotyloid ligament.
Traction is exerted in the same direction from the acetabulum that the head of the femur is situated and by pressing over the joint, the displaced bone may be returned in position.
The latter structure, which is chiefly tendinous, originates in the supracondyloid fossa of the femur and has an insertion to the summit of the fibular tarsal (calcis) bone.
The femur may be considered analagous to the humerus in that it bears a similar relationship to the ilium, that exist between the humerus and scapula.
In addition to the usual provision for articulation of bones there are situated cartilaginous menisci between the condyles of the femur and the head of the tibia.
Occasionally, evidence of chronic luxation of the femuris observed in the anatomical laboratory.
Collateral ligaments (internal and external lateral) pass from the distal end of the femur to the proximal portion of the tibia.
The round ligament (ligamentum teres) is the principal binding structure of the hip joint and it arises in a notch in the head of the femur and is attached in the subpubic groove close to the acetabular notch.
If luxation is downward, traction on the extremity will tend to dislodge the head of the femur from the inferior acetabular margin making reduction possible.
Defn: Pertaining to thefemur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.
Defn: The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird.
The femur was measured on three occasions as accurately as possible through the skin and flesh.
The precise boundaries of thefemur could not be determined and the thickness of the skin and certain muscle is included.
It may merely be fissured, or the head of the femur may be forcibly driven through its floor into the pelvic cavity, either by fracturing the bone or, in young subjects, by bursting asunder the cartilaginous junction of the constituent bones.
The head and neck of the femur are nourished chiefly by the thick, vascular periosteum, and through certain strong fibrous bands reflected from the attachment of the capsule--the retinacular or cervical ligaments of Stanley.
The most certain means of diagnosis is by the X-rays, which show the position of the head of the bone in relation to the acetabulum, and any torsion of the neck of the femur that may be present.
In old people, a fracture of the neck of the femur usually necessitates long and continuous lying on the back, and bronchitis, hypostatic pneumonia, and bed-sores are prone to occur and endanger life.
The socket becomes small and triangular, and there is almost no ledge against which the head of the femur can rest.
The neck of the femur may appear to be fractured if a foreshortened view is taken.
The head of the femur passes beneath the obturator internus, and this tendon, catching on its neck, checks its upward movement (Fig.
Tenderness may be elicited on making pressure to the medial side of the ligamentum patellæ in the groove between the femur and the tibia, but the meniscus cannot be recognised by palpation.
Innominate Bone and upper end of Femur from a case of Congenital Dislocation of Hip.
When the upper end of the femur has disappeared, the neck should be implanted in the acetabulum, and the limb placed in the abducted position.
As a result of the pressure of the carious articular surfaces against one another, the acetabulum is enlarged and the upper end of the femur is drawn gradually upwards and backwards within the socket.
Kayan and Ulu Ayar men have a comparatively shorter femurthan the Punan.
As he was so stretched I noticed how extraordinarily long his femur was compared to his tibia.
I do not know of any other existing race in the world in which such an extraordinary phenomenon occurs, and the tibia struck me also as being extremely long, while the femur appeared proportionately short.
In the Eskimo, with even greater dependence on the canoe, both the humerus and the femur are notably stouter, while the tibia is weaker, than are similar bones in the Indians in general.
They are seen to considerably resemble the Yukon Indians, but somewhat less so other Indians in the radio-humeral and tibio-femoral indices, and they resemble all the Indians in the relative proportions of the femur at its middle.
The femur is notably less platymeric in the male and slightly less so in the female Yukon Eskimo than it is in both the Indians and the rest of the southwestern and midwestern Eskimo, giving a higher index at the upper flattening.
In the Yukon Indian the humerus is stouter, the femur of the same strength, and the tibia very perceptibly weaker than they are in Indians in general.
My compound fractured femur man told me how he stopped his bullet.
We found a compound-fractured femur put up with a rifle for a splint!
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