{"id":1444,"date":"2016-06-07T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2016-06-07T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:21:15","slug":"femur-distal-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/06\/07\/femur-distal-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Femur &#8211; Distal End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femu-full-posterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1447 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femu-full-posterior-250x106.jpg\" alt=\"femu-full-posterior\" width=\"250\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femu-full-posterior-250x106.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femu-full-posterior-500x213.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femu-full-posterior-768x327.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femu-full-posterior.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The lower end of the femur, called the distal end, articulates with the tibia of the lower leg. \u00a0 It consists of two large structures called <strong>condyles<\/strong>, which is the greek word for &#8220;knuckle.&#8221; \u00a0 In fact, if you go to a butcher shop, you can order a &#8220;knuckle bone&#8221; for soups or for dog treats. \u00a0The two condyles are named <strong>medial condyle<\/strong> and <strong>lateral condyle<\/strong> based on their positioning.<\/p>\n<p>It can be challenging to determine \u00a0the medial and lateral side on a disarticulated bone. \u00a0The best way is to look a the top of the bone where the &#8220;knob-like&#8221; head of the femur is, the head points toward the body, this is the medial side.<\/p>\n<p>Each condyle has a smaller protuberance called the <strong>epicondyles<\/strong>, and the deep groove between the condyles is called the <strong>intercondylar fossa<\/strong>. \u00a0Also visible on the femur is the <strong>linea aspera<\/strong> \u00a0(Latin = &#8220;rough line&#8221;) which serves as an attachment point for muscles of the thigh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femur-condyles-labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1448\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femur-condyles-labeled.jpg\" alt=\"femur-condyles-labeled\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femur-condyles-labeled.jpg 800w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femur-condyles-labeled-250x162.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femur-condyles-labeled-500x324.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/femur-condyles-labeled-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower end of the femur, called the distal end, articulates with the tibia of the lower leg. \u00a0 It consists of two large structures called condyles, which is the greek word for &#8220;knuckle.&#8221; \u00a0 In fact, if you go to a butcher shop, you can order a &#8220;knuckle bone&#8221; for soups or for dog treats. \u00a0The two condyles are named medial condyle and lateral condyle based on their positioning. It can be challenging to determine \u00a0the medial and lateral side on a disarticulated bone. \u00a0The best way is to look a the top of the bone where the &#8220;knob-like&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[299,177,295,296,290,301,300,130,298,297],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-aspera","tag-condyle","tag-distal","tag-epicondyle","tag-femur","tag-fossa","tag-intercondylar","tag-lateral","tag-linea","tag-medial","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}