thighbone
- n the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
- Changes also had to take place in the femur, or thighbone.
- He concludes that the Java thighbone has no relation to the Java skullan opinion advanced by other anthropologists before him.
- At England General Hospital in Atlantic City last week was a wounded soldier with a strangely mended femur (thighbone).