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13 lis 2020 · Learn about the femur, the longest bone in the body, and its three parts: proximal, shaft and distal. Find out the bony landmarks, attachments, fractures and clinical correlations of the femur.
11 wrz 2023 · Although it is described as being a cylindrical structure, the shaft of the femur has several surfaces and borders that blend seamlessly. Toward the middle of the shaft, there are three surfaces and three borders. The convex anterior surface is bound by medial and lateral rounded borders.
The head of the femur is connected to the shaft through the neck or collum. The neck is 4–5 cm. long and the diameter is smallest front to back and compressed at its middle. The collum forms an angle with the shaft in about 130 degrees. This angle is highly variant.
8 lis 2021 · Learn about the femur, the longest and strongest bone in the human body, located in the thigh region. Find out its parts, landmarks, joints, muscles, and ligaments, and see diagrams and x-rays.
Femoral Shaft. The femoral shaft is almost cylindrical in form, being slightly broader superiorly and slightly arched, giving it a convexity anteriorly and concavity posteriorly which has a prominent longitudinal ridge of bone, the linea aspera.
In human anatomy, the body of femur (or shaft of femur) is the almost cylindrical, long part of the femur. It is a little broader above than in the center, broadest and somewhat flattened from before backward below.
17 lis 2023 · The femur is the longest, heaviest, and strongest human bone. At the proximal end, the pyramid-shaped neck attaches the spherical head at the apex and the cylindrical shaft at the base. There are also two prominent bony protrusions, the greater and lesser trochanter, that attach to muscles that move the hip and knee.