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What is a thigh?

What is a thigh? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.]
  2. That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. [from 14th c.]
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The hip is a ball-and-socket joint where the thigh bone's femoral head fits into the acetabulum of the pelvis.
The rectus femoris, a long muscle that runs straight down the front of the thigh, is one of the major muscles of the quadriceps.
Some of the knit dresses showed off so much thigh that they looked like tops.
Aidan O'Mahony sustained a thigh injury in the drawn encounter, and is rated doubtful.
She rubbed, absent-mindedly at the welt of a scar on her thigh, covered and concealed by tights and a dress.
Bilateral thigh pain or weakness with atrophy of the iliopsoas, quadriceps, and adductor muscles also may be present.

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