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transfemoral

transfemoral adjective: across the femur (or thigh).

Adjective

transfemoral (not comparable)

  1. Across the femur (or thigh)
    • Current policy in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) is to provide individuals who require a prosthesis for a knee disarticulation (KD) or transfemoral (TF)-level amputation a microprocessor knee (MPK) unit for daily use and a non-microprocessor knee unit (N-MPK) as a...2022, Jody-Lynn Young, Eva Guérin, Markus Besemann, Nancy Dudek, “Microprocessor knee versus non-microprocessor knee for backup device in lower limb prostheses: A qualitative study”, in Journal of...

Origin of transfemoral

From trans- + femoral.

Words formed from transfemoral

Questions about transfemoral

What does transfemoral mean?
Transfemoral means across the femur (or thigh).
What part of speech is transfemoral?
Transfemoral is an adjective.

Words near transfemoral in the dictionary

  1. transfeminisms
  2. transfeminist
  3. transfeminists
  4. transfemme
  5. transfemmes
  6. transfemoral
  7. transfemorally
  8. transfems
  9. transfenestration
  10. transfenestrations
  11. transfer

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