Femoral

Definition: Femoral

Femoral

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or near the femur or thigh.

Date "femoral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Femoral

Domain	Definitions
Health	Pertaining to the femur, or to the thigh. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Femoral

English words defined with "femoral": arteria poplitea ♦ circumflex femoral vein ♦ external iliac artery, external iliac vein ♦ femoral artery, femoral biceps, femoral nerve, femoral pulse, femoral vein ♦ great saphenous vein ♦ Heteromerous ♦ long saphenous vein ♦ Merocele, milk leg ♦ nervus saphenus ♦ perforating vein, phlegmasia alba dolens, popliteal artery, popliteal vein ♦ saphenous nerve ♦ vena femoralis, vena perforantis, vena poplitea ♦ white leg. (references)

Specialty definitions using "femoral": Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Catheterization, Swan-Ganz ♦ Femoral Fractures, Femoral Neck Fractures, Femoral Neuropathy, Femur Head Necrosis, Fractures, Stress ♦ GREAT ♦ Hexobendine, Hip Dislocation, Congenital, Hip Fractures ♦ Osteoarthritis, Hip, Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal ♦ Whitman plaster. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Femoral" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (femoral), Portuguese (femoral, femur), Spanish (femoral).

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Commercial Usage: Femoral

Domain	Title
Books	Femoral neck fractures and hip joint injuries (reference) Femoral shaft fractures in adults A study of 329 consecutive cases with a statistical analysis of different methods of treatment (reference) Idiopathic ischemic necrosis of the femoral head in adults (reference) Segmental Idiopathic Necrosis of the Femoral Head (reference) Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Femoral

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Illustration showing portion of perforation of femoral artery and vein].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Femoral

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Physical examination should include the assessment of male secondary sex characteristics, femoral and lower extremity pulses, and a focused neurologic examination including perianal sensation, anal sphincter tone, and bulbocavernosus reflex. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GREAT, adj. "I'm great," the Lion said -- "I reign The monarch of the wood and plain!" The Elephant replied: "I'm great -- No quadruped can match my weight!" "I'm great -- no animal has half So long a neck!" said the Giraffe. "I'm great," the Kangaroo said -- "see My femoral muscularity!" The 'Possum said: "I'm great -- behold, My tail is lithe and bald and cold!" An Oyster fried was understood To say: "I'm great because I'm good!" Each reckons greatness to consist In that in which he heads the list, And Vierick thinks he tops his class Because he is the greatest ass. Arion Spurl Doke
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Usage Frequency: Femoral

"Femoral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Femoral" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	13	97,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Femoral

Expressions using "femoral": circumflex femoral vein ♦ Femoral Artery ♦ femoral biceps ♦ Femoral Fractures ♦ Femoral Neck Fractures ♦ Femoral Nerve ♦ Femoral Neuropathy ♦ femoral pulse ♦ Femoral Vein. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Femoral

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
femoral hernia	84	femoral patellar syndrome	6
patella femoral syndrome	56	femoral hernias	6
femoral artery	32	condyle femoral	6
femoral nerve	23	arteriografia femoral	6
femoral neck fracture	22	aneurism femoral	5
femoral	18	artery branch cannula femoral	5
femoral neuropathy	16	femoral bypass	5
slipped capital femoral epiphysis	15	femoral pain patella syndrome	5
femoral patello syndrome	13	femoral head ostectomy	5
femoral vein	13	femoral head operative	5
bypass femoral popliteal	10	femoral head	5
femoral neck	9	femoral fracture neck stress	4
condyle femoral medial	9	femoral head osteotomy	4
anteversion femoral	9	femoral neck radiograph	4
avascular femoral head necrosis	7	damage femoral nerve	4
femoral patella	7	condyle femoral lateral	4
block femoral nerve	7	femoral fracture	4
femoral osteotomy	7	femoral hernia symptom	4
bursitis femoral	7	femoral fracture head	4
cutaneous femoral lateral nerve	7	femoral pain patella	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Femoral

Language		Translations for "femoral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i femurit. (various references)

Arabic		‏فخذ (leg, thigh). (various references)

Bulgarian		бедрен. (various references)

Chinese		大腿骨. (various references)

Czech		stehenní (humeral). (various references)

Danish		femoralis. (various references)

Dutch		femoralis, femoraal. (various references)

Finnish		femoraalinen, reisi-. (various references)

French		fémoral. (various references)

German		Oberschenkel (ham, thigh), femoral. (various references)

Greek		μηριαίος (crural), μήρου. (various references)

Hungarian		combcsonti. (various references)

Italian		femorale (thigh). (various references)

Korean		�"� �다리. (various references)

Manx		lheshey (coxal, haunch, of a hip), femoragh. (various references)

Pig Latin		emoralfay

Portuguese		femoral (femur), feminizar-se. (various references)

Romanian		femural. (various references)

Russian		бедренный (crural). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		butni, bedreni. (various references)

Spanish		femoral. (various references)

Swedish		lår-. (various references)

Turkish		uyluk ile ilgili, kalça kemiğine ait. (various references)

Ukranian		стегновий. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Femoral

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	femoralis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Femoral

Misspellings
	"Femoral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demoral, femaal, femor, feneral. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Femoral"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "femoral" (pronounced fe"merul)
6	f e" m er u l	ephemeral.
4	-m er u l	admiral, humoral, numeral.
3	-er u l	agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, federal, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, inaugural, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, temporal, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral.
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Anagrams: Femoral

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-m-o-r"
	-1 letter: femora, flamer, florae, foamer, formal, loafer, morale.
	-2 letters: afore, amole, farle, feral, flame, flare, fleam, flora, foram, forme, frame, lamer, molar, morae, moral, morel, realm.
	-3 letters: aero, alef, alme, aloe, earl, fame, fare, farl, farm, faro, feal, fear, flam, flea, floe, foal, foam, fora, fore, form, frae, froe, from, lame, leaf, lear, loaf.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-m-o-r"
	+1 letter: formable, formulae, fumarole, leafworm.
	+2 letters: formalise, formalize, formulate, fumaroles, leafworms, malformed, mayflower, oriflamme.
	+3 letters: deformable, fearsomely, flameproof, flavorsome, foamflower, formalised, formalises, formalized, formalizer, formalizes, formalness, formalwear, formidable, formulated, formulates, malefactor, mayflowers, mycoflorae, oriflammes, reformable, salverform, semiformal, wolframite.
	+4 letters: comfortable, confirmable, conformable, deformalize, flameproofs, foamflowers, footlambert, formalities, formalizers, formatively, formularies, formularize, infomercial, lamelliform, malefactors, microflorae, patelliform, performable, reformulate, wolframites.
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