Anatom3DRight femur
Femur dextrum · Pravá kost stehenní
Skeleton
Looks like
The thigh bone, the longest and strongest bone in the body, from the ball of the hip to the rounded ends at the knee.
What it does
Carries body weight from the hip to the knee and anchors the powerful thigh and hip muscles.
Keeping it well
Hip (femoral neck) fractures after falls in older people need surgery within a day or two. Shaft fractures bleed heavily — emergency.
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis)
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Growing pains
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Perthes disease
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Varicose veins
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency