It is the longest and strongest bone in your body. The femur is your thigh bone, running from your knee to your hip. It’s a difficult bone to break, but if you do, you’ll likely need surgery.

It is the longest and strongest bone in your body. The femur is your thigh bone, running from your knee to your hip. It’s a difficult bone to break, but if you do, you’ll likely need surgery.

There's over 200 bones in the human body, many of which we see taking quite a bit of trauma in the action-packed series. ... The femur is the largest long bone of the body.

Several muscles could be called the "largest" in the body, depending on whether you're talking mass or surface area, but the body's smallest muscle has no competition.

However, even the small possibility that the drugs you are taking to strengthen bone could lead to fractures and bone loss is tough to digest, she adds, and impossible to ignore.