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Your thighbone (femur) is the longest and strongest bone in your body. Because the femur is so strong, it usually takes a lot of force to break it. Motor vehicle collisions, for example, are the number one cause of femur fractures. The long, straight part of the femur is called the femoral shaft.
During indirect bone healing, fracture repair begins with the formation of a hematoma, followed by cartilaginous internal and external calluses. Osteoclasts resorb dead bone, while osteoblasts create new bone that replaces the cartilage in the calluses. Calluses eventually unite, and bone remodeling occurs to complete the healing process.
11 sie 2024 · The femur is the thigh bone, the largest and strongest bone in the human body. It supports your weight, stabilizes the body, and helps you move. Reaching from the hip to the knee, the femur is one of the hardest bones in your body to break. When it does fracture, it can cause life-threatening internal bleeding.
13 lis 2020 · The femur is the only bone in the thigh. It is classed as a long bone, and is in fact the longest bone in the body. The main function of the femur is to transmit forces from the tibia to the hip joint.
10 sie 2024 · The calcaneus is an irregular, roughly cuboidal bone sitting below the talus. Its long axis is orientated along the midline of the foot, however deviates lateral to the midline anteriorly. It projects posteriorly to form the core of the heel. The posterior part of the calcaneus is circular, with three facets (superior, middle, and inferior).
It is the only bone in the top part of your leg and is surrounded by thigh muscles. The middle part of your thigh bone is called the femoral shaft. The top of your femur connects to your hip, and the bottom connects to your lower leg at the knee.
11 wrz 2023 · Proximally, the femur articulates with the pelvic bone. Distally, it interacts with the patella and the proximal aspect of the tibia. The femur begins to develop between the 5th to 6th gestational week by way of endochondral ossification (where a bone is formed using a cartilage-based foundation).
