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the highway where your blood, your nerves, and your medical emergencies all merge into one lane
means Relating to the femur, the thigh bone, or to the region of the thigh.
from From Latin 'femur,' meaning thigh, with the adjectival ending '-alis' attached. The medical Latin term 'femoralis' carried it into English in the 18th century, where it stayed locked to anatomy — the femoral artery, the femoral nerve, the femoral head all tracing back to that single Latin word for the thigh.
- naming
- From Latin femur, meaning thigh
- big artery
- Main blood supply to the entire leg
- pulse point
- Felt in the groin during CPR checks
- surgical gateway
- Catheters reach the heart through it
- pressure spot
- Compressed to stop major leg bleeding
femoral artery — major blood vessel in the thigh, supplies blood to the leg and is the largest artery in the lower body
femoral nerve — largest nerve of the lumbar plexus, emerges from l2-l4 vertebrae and innervates the thigh muscles
femoral head necrosis — condition affecting the ball of the femur, caused by loss of blood supply, often requiring hip replacement