How to Use femoral in a Sentence

femoral

adjective
  • The hole is positioned at the femoral condyles, the round parts of the thigh bone.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In a femoral osteotomy, the surgery is done on the thigh bone above the knee cap.
    — Anita C. Chandrasekaran, Health, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Some people are born with an uneven or shallow femoral groove.
    — Jonathan Cluett, Md, Verywell Health, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The femoral head is part of the femur at the top of the thigh that connects the leg to the pelvis.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Stewart fractured the mid-shaft of her femur and the femoral neck, or hip, on the same leg.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Frank Anaya severely cut his leg and femoral artery while battling the brush fire.
    — Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2017
  • Brown said about shattering a leg, which contains the major femoral artery.
    — Chris Haire, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Zimetbaum threaded catheters into the right and left femoral vessels in my groin and up into my heart.
    — The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The long, straight part of the bone is known as the femoral shaft, and a break at any point on this length of bone is called a femoral shaft fracture.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Further imaging of the hip revealed a mild femoral head impaction fracture.
    — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Ringer threaded a fine-gauge catheter into Deuer’s femoral artery, through her body, and then into the brain to the aneurysm.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
  • He was diagnosed with three femoral arterial blood clots, which were cutting off blood flow to his left foot.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Rival lizards can smell these chemicals, called femoral secretions, with a simple flick of their tongues.
    — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • The thickness of Eberle’s bones didn’t allow the femoral head to roll properly.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Then the researchers moved on to a rabbit model with a femoral bone defect that was too large to heal naturally.
    — New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Double Jeopardy star suffered a fracture of the femoral condyle over the summer.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • However, his season will be over after a distal femoral osteotomy is performed at the end of the month.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Chapman, a two-time Platinum Glove winner, had surgery to repair a torn right hip labrum with a cleanup of the femoral head.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The hip, which is a ball-and-socket joint at the upper thigh bone, is most likely to be fractured at its uppermost portion, known as the femoral neck.
    — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, a femoral fracture is a break in the femur, or thigh bone, and is usually the result of high-impact trauma, such as a car crash.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Motor vehicle accident-type force with the hip in an unusual position is required to make the femoral head come out of the socket.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • There were the injuries, including a femoral stress fracture that forced her to drop out of the 2012 Olympic marathon less than three miles in.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • After six months in space, the proximal femoral bone in the leg can ditch around 10 percent of its mass, requiring years of recovery back on the ground.
    — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Once the airstrike ended, Esmat tried to suture Amin’s severed femoral artery on a makeshift operating table, but to no avail.
    — Matthieu Aikins, New York Times, 17 May 2016
  • What’s more, their carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, an indicator of how well blood vessels expand and contract as needed, increased.
    — SELF, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Anysia Brooks said her brother's two friends also were hit by the gunfire - one of them in the femoral artery- and both remained hospitalized on Tuesday.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 5 July 2017
  • The actress and reality star didn't know at first that her symptoms were serious but ended up being diagnosed with two inguinal and two femoral hernias.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The results of his work led other physicians to use the femoral vein, deep within the thigh, to reach the inferior vena cava, which carries blood from the legs, feet and abdomen to the heart.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The patient was able to go home shortly after the catheter was removed because his doctors decided to use the radial artery in his arm, rather than the femoral artery in his leg, to access his heart.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The geometry of the implant included a stem extension, tibial tray, femoral tray, and other components.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2023

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