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femoral condyle

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femoral condyle,
one of a pair of large flared prominences on the distal end of the femur. Identified as lateral and medial femoral condyles, they are covered with a thick layer of hyaline cartilage and articulate with the patella and the tibia at the knee joint.


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The femoral segment was defined by markers on the greater trochanter, lateral femoral condyle, and anterior thigh (for left and right sides respectively).
Hip rotational velocities during the full golf swing by Gulgin, Heather; Armstrong, Charles; Gribble, Phillip / Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
The anterior cruciate ligament The ACL extends in an inferior, anterior, and medial direction from its origin on the inner surface of the posterior, lateral femoral condyle to its insertion on the anterior tibial plateau anterior to the tibial spines between the attachments of the medial and lateral menisci and beneath the transverse ligament.
Imaging the knee: ligaments by Nissman, Daniel B.; Hobbs, R. Hal; Pope, Thomas L.; Geier, C. David, Jr.; Conway, William F. / Applied Radiology
When TKA was performed according to the anterior reference12 and independently cut,13 the mean length of the resected anteromedial and anterolateral femoral condyle was almost the same as the value of EG minus IJ, which was therefore defined as the length of the resected condyle, and IJ plus FH as the length of the remaining condyle.
Morphologic differences of the distal femur between Caucasian and ... by K Urabe and O M Mahoney and K Mabuchi and M Itoman / Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery
 
 
 
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