All right, NGNerds, we're going to take a look at the femur now. So if we look at the femur, this is actually the posterior view of the femur. So if we look here, this is actually the head of the femur. Again, it's made with, it has articular cartilage or hyaline cartilage surrounding it so that it can articulate with the acetabulum of the coccyx.
the bone to form the synovial bone socket joint. If you look here, these are some really big things that are popping out here. This is actually called the greater trochanter.
And this one down here is the lesser trochanter. And there's kind of like this crest moving between them. So this is called intertricanteric crest.
So again, greater tricanter, lesser tricanter, intertricanteric crest. If you look right here, this is actually going to be referred to as the gluteal tuberosity. That's where the gluteal muscles attach to. All right, they actually insert in that point right there. Then if I move down here, you can see the linea aspera.
This is the linea aspera. It's kind of an attachment for some of the hamstring muscles. Then if I come down here, this is actually called lateral supracondylar line right there. there, and this is the medial supercondylar line right there. So again, medial supercondylar line, lateral supercondylar line.
I'm going to keep moving down here. And then these are going to be our condyles down here. So this is actually the medial condyle right here.
This is the lateral condyle. And this little space in here is called the intercondylar fossa. Now if you look over here, there is, again, these little condyles over here.
This is actually the medial supercondylar line. medial epicondyle. Alright, so that's the medial epicondyle.
What's important about the medial epicondyle is there's actually a little tubercle right above it. There's actually a little tubercle right above that medial epicondyle, and that's called the adductor tubercle. That's where some of the adductor muscles attach right there.
Okay, now if I come over here, we take a look over here, that's our lateral epicondyle. So that's a lateral epicondyle. Alright, so now what we're going to do is we're going to flip it over, and we're going to look at the anterior side. Alright, again, so now we're looking at the anterior side.
side of the femur. Again, this is the head of the femur. Now, if you saw before, there was a big crest before. Now, it kind of just looks like a really like less prominent crest. It's actually called the intertricanteric line.
And it's this little part right there. It's the intertricanteric line. Okay.
So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to move down the shaft of the femur here, or the diaphysis. And then we're going to come down here to the distal epiphysis. All right. So if we look here, I saw a little divot in here. It's actually where where the patella bone, which is a sesamoid bone, sits in there.
It's called the patellar surface right there. All right, guys, so now we're going to take a look at two more things I want to point out, and that's right here. You can actually see a little divot in there.
It's actually called the fovea capitis. It's called the fovea capitis there. Some ligaments actually attach from that to the acetabulum, the coccybum.
Then if you look again, the way I'm holding my fingers around this part of the femur, the way that I'm holding it, that what I'm wrapping around is the surgical neck of the femur. All right, guys, so that pretty much covers everything we need to know about the femur. team.