In a femur X-ray, an X-ray machine sends a beam of radiation through the upper leg (the area between the hip and knee), and an image is recorded on special film or a computer. This image shows the ...

Lying on the pebbles and rocks of the riverbed at low tide was a human femur, or upper leg bone, which told a story far older than anyone had expected. Video by Sarah Lee The Europe boss of JP ...

Femoral osteotomy is a surgical procedure that is performed to correct specific deformities of the femur – the long bone in the upper leg – and the hip joint. Orthopedic surgeons perform the operation ...

The knee is the joint where the bones of the lower and upper legs meet. The largest joint in the body ... elastic material that absorbs shock and allows the bones to glide easily against one another ...

One is part of the lower leg bone of a carnivore similar to Sarcosaurus; the other is from the upper leg bone of a Scelidosaurus, a four-legged herbivore. The two fossil bones, confirmed to be ...

However, doubts about their human origin surfaced in the 1980s and have now been definitively resolved. The Ushikawa fossils were initially identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and ...

Dinosaurs with very, very long necks and long tails. This bone is a femur, so it’s the upper leg bone and it’s from the right side of the body. And what we can see is at the top of the bone we have ...

I just saw it stick up and then stick back down,” he told 7NEWS. The “it” referred to by the 11-year-old boy was his femur — the upper leg bone and the largest bone in the body — which had broken. The ...