Word Meanings - FEMORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery. "Femoral habiliments." Sir W. Scott.

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• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• THIGH
  dije, OHG. dioh, thioh, Icel. thigh, rump, and probably to Lith. taukas fat of animals, tuk to become fat, Russ. tuke fat of animals.
• FEMUR
  The thigh bone. The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• ARTERY
  One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. Note: In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain
• FEMORAL
  Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery. "Femoral habiliments." Sir W. Scott.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• ILIOFEMORAL
  Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• BARTERY
  Barter. Camden.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach