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femur

The longest and strongest bone of the human body; also the upper bone in the hind limb of a four-limbed vertebrate.

The thigh-bone has a rounded head which articulates with the hip bone. The neck of the bone joining the head to the main shaft is a common site for fracture in elderly people. The bone has two large condyles (knuckles) on its lower end which have extensive surfaces that articulate with the tibia in the knee joint. It has been shown that the adult femur can support a compressive load of about 900 kg/1,990 lb, far more than the weight of the body.



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Herbert and Fumer (1997) wrote that ineffective teaching techniques are often the source of anxiety.
Teachers have the power to alleviate math anxiety by Shields, Darla J. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
N'as tu horreur, estant de tous costez / Environnee et de mortz, et de tombes, / De veoir ainsi fumer sur tes Autelz / Pour t'appaiser, mille, et mille Hecarombes?
(Re)visiting Delie: Maurice Sceve and Marian Poetry [*] by DEFAUX, GERARD / Renaissance Quarterly
In Rome he has returned "home" to his cultural heritage, yet by means of the epistolary sonnet he expresses his estrangement from it, yearning to see "the chimney smoke of my little village" ("de mon petit village / fumer la cheminee," line 30).
Letters from home: the epistolary aspects of Joachim Du Bellay's 'Les ... by Bizer, Marc / Renaissance Quarterly
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