The trochanteric ridges are also equal in size in pig femur. Greater trochanter does not extend above the head of the pig femur. Trochanteric ridge is directed along the length of the femur bone in horse. The supracondyloid fossa is deeper in horse femur bone than other animals. The fovea capitis is deep and notched in the head of horse femur bone. You will find an extra larger prominence at the lateral border of the body of femur of horse – the third trochanter. The femur of horse is more massive than the other animals. The greater trochanter of dog femur bone is at the lower level of the head.

The trochanteric ridges are equal shape and size in dog. You will not find the supracondyloid fossa in dog femur bone. I would like to enlist the exceptional characteristics from the dog femur bone anatomy – You need to identify the intercondyloid fossa in between lateral and medial condyle of femur bone anatomy. There are also lateral and medial epicondyles in distal extremity of cow femur. You will find two condyles in distal extremity of ox femur bone – lateral and medial. Again the condyle is the knuckle shaped paired articular surface in cow femur bone anatomy. The trochlea is the pully like grooved articular surface in cow femur bone. The distal extremity of cow femur contains trochlea and condyle. The name of this deep depression is trochanteric fossa of ox femur.Īnatomical features of distal extremity of cow femur bone You will also find a moderately deep depression at caudal part of distal extremity of ox femur. This elongated elevation is called trochanteric crest of ox femur bone. The caudal border of greater trochanter of ox femur contains an elongated elevation. In the proximal extremity you will also find a large prominence known as greater trochanter of cow femur bone. The neck is the constricted part just below the expanded head of cow femur. This articular surface is known as fovea capitis femoris of ox femur. There is an articular surface in the form of very small pit in the head of ox femur head.

In the proximal extremity of animal femur there is a large round expand area known as head. Lateral border of ox femur you will find a large round projection called lateral supracondyloid tuberosity. This depression is known as supracondyloid fossa in ox femur. This prominence of bone is also known as lesser trochanter of ox femur.Īt the distal part of medial border of animal femur you will find moderately deep depression. The medial border of cow femur contains very large prominence at the proximal end of the femur body. There are two borders in cow femur bone – medial border and lateral border. For this reason this bone is also known as round bone in ox skeleton. Lateral smooth surface of cow femur boneįemur of ox is convex side to side and appears round in cross section. Caudal wide and smooth surface of femur bone You will find four different surface of a femur bone – The body is cylindrical but flattened caudally and larger proximally and distally of the femur bone. Femur bone anatomyĭo you want to learn femur bone anatomy from different animals? Fine, I am going to describe the anatomy of femur bone body and extremities. Find out all the features from the labeled anatomy of cow femur bone. Hope this animal femur identification will help you to learn femur bone anatomy. Lateral and medial epicondyle of femur bone of ox Lateral and medial condyle of femur of cow Osteological features identification from the distal extremity of femur bone of cow – Greater trochanter and it’s structures – trochanteric crest and trochanteric fossa in animal The fovea capitis femoris in the head of cow femur Osteological features from the proximal extremity of femur of ox – The lateral supracondyloid tuberosity of femur of ox

Supracondyloid fossa of animal femur bone Lesser trochanter at the proximal part of medial border of body of cow femur Four surface of cow femur bone – cranial surface, medial surface, lateral surface and caudal surface Identification of osteological features from the body of cow femur – I am going to enlist the osteological features from the cow femur – You should identify the following important structures from the animal femur bone anatomy. Then you may find out the difference in osteological features from different animals. First you may learn the basic osteological features of femur bone from ox skeleton. In this article I am going to present the anatomy of femur of ox. Again this bone articulates with tibia, fibula and patella below and form the stifle joint. The femur bone presents the two main important parts –įemur bone articulates with hip bone above and form hip joint in animal. It inclines horizontally or with frontal plane of animal body. Femur is directed obliquely downward and forward. The body of the animal femur is cylindrical and more massive.

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