thighbone
Americannoun
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thighbones
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of thighbone
First recorded in 1400–50, thighbone is from late Middle English the bane. See thigh, bone
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The procedure involved placing new implants at the end of the thighbone and top of the shinbone with the computer's aid to ensure the knee was stable and balanced throughout the range of motion.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
But, “It’s not a slam dunk,” Lieberman says, because the partial fossil thighbone lacks both ends.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
Compared to bones from other species, the thighbone matched up better with upright-walking humans than knuckle-walking apes, according to the study.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
The femur, or thighbone, is the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In 1787, someone in New Jersey–exactly who now seems to be forgotten–found an enormous thighbone sticking out of a stream bank at a place called Woodbury Creek.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Then they butchered it, swaddled the great thighbones in fat and burned them, so the gods could feast on the smoke, the immaterial and thus everlasting part of the animal.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
From the width of the thighbones of the two more extensive skeletons in the block, the researchers estimate that each weighed roughly 45 kilograms, a little more than a German shepherd dog.
From Nature ● Aug. 24, 2017
On this basis Dr. Weidenreich assumes the Peking man's thighbones to be the more primitive.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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