and your hip bone (pelvis). If one is having hip dysplasia then the femur's round ball (femoral head) doesn't correctly match up with the curved socket in your pelvis that it should fit into.

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

We measured bone mineral content (BMC) and bone area at the lumbar spine, total body, and proximal femur. Proximal femur scans were also analysed for bone geometry and structural strength using the ...

Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints. The femur bone in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The smallest bones in the ...