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What type a bone is a femur?

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An irregular bone is a bone that can not be grouped in to groups. The 4 groups are long, short, flat, or sesamoid bones. Some bones not classified into those 4 groups are the vertebrae, the sacrum, the maxilla, and the hyoid.

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The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as long bone, short bone, flat bone or sesamoid bone. Irregular bones serve various purposes in the body, such as protection of nervous tissue (such as the vertebrae protect the spinal cord), affording multiple anchor points for skeletal muscle attachment (as with the sacrum), and maintaining pharynx and trachea support, and tongue attachment (such as the hyoid bone). They consist of cancellous tissue enclosed within a thin layer of compact bone.

The irregular bones are: the vertebræ, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.

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An irregular bone is a bone that can not be grouped in to groups. The 4 groups are long, short, flat, or sesamoid bones. The humerus is classified as a long bone. therefor it is not an irregular bone.

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No, the femur bone is the thigh bone and is considered to be a long bone.

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The irregular bones are: the vertebræ, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.

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the largest bone in the body, the thigh bone that runs from your hip joint to your knee joint

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The pelvis is comprised of three bones; the ilium, the ischium and the pubic bone.

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No. It is a sesamoid bone.

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