"Femur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dexter femur," he said, "within a hair's breadth like o' your femoral artery and ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... strengthen and reenforce nerve-energy. No other observer mentions these ganglia, as far as I have been able to determine; they may have been absent, however, in the specimens studied by others, yet in the specimens studied by myself—the "red-legged locust" (Melanoplus femur-rubrum, Comstock)[18] and the "meadow grasshopper" (Xiphidium), they were ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir
... a correct idea of the bird's entire walking apparatus, we begin with the uppermost part of the leg. As we proceed, it would be well to keep in mind the different parts of the human leg and foot. The highest bone is called the thigh bone or femur, which is, for the most part, enclosed in the general integument of the body, and is not entirely separate from it as is the thigh bone of the human leg. Among carvers it is known as the "second joint." It ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... and that they attain their full size before those of the rest of the body. Therefore it is only in the case of the adult that accurate results can be calculated upon. Probably I have not done wisely in selecting a portion of the skull as a standard—a bone of the body, such as a femur or humerus might be more reliable—but I was driven to it by circumstances. Sportsmen, as a rule, do not keep anything but the skull, and for general purposes it would have been of no use my giving as a test what no one could get hold of except ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale
... in length, being relatively to the femur considerably longer in the Spanish and Frizzled, and shorter in the Silk and Bantam breeds, than in the wild G. bankiva; but in the latter, as we have seen, the tarsi vary in length. The tarsi are often feathered. The feet in many breeds are furnished ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin |
