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the body's biggest bone hides here, casually outpowering your entire upper half
means The part of the leg between the hip and the knee, thick with muscle and built around the femur.
from From Old English 'thēoh,' a thoroughly Germanic word with cousins across the family — Dutch 'dij' and Old Norse 'þjó' among them. The deeper root is thought to carry the sense of 'the thick or swollen part,' which is exactly what a thigh is: the leg at its fattest and strongest.
- longest bone
- the femur is your body's longest, strongest bone
- break force
- snapping a femur takes around 1,700 pounds of force
- blood highway
- the femoral artery can bleed you out fast
- muscle giant
- contains the body's largest muscle, the gluteus maximus's neighbor
- chicken irony
- dark meat thighs work hard, so they taste richer
for instance
vastus lateralis — largest of the four quadriceps muscles, used in exercise physiology studies and vaccine injections
femur — longest and strongest bone in the human body, bearing up to 1.25x body weight per step