Injury or Poisoning
femur fracture
fe·mur frac·ture [ fee-mer frak-cher ]
Subclass of:
Leg Injuries; Fracture
Definitions related to femoral fractures:
  • (femur fracture) A break or crush injury of the thigh bone (femur).
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • (femur fracture) A traumatic or pathologic injury to the femur in which the continuity of the femur is broken.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (femur fracture) Breaks or rupture in bone situated between the hip and the knee, the femur.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • This article discusses fractures of the femoral diaphysis. For proximal femur fractures (subtrochanteric to femoral head), see the article Fractures, Hip.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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