The femoral artery is a very large artery that lies close to the femoral nerve. In trauma they are often injured together. Injury to or bleeding in the artery can cause compression on the nerve. Additionally, because the femoral nerve provides sensation to a major portion of the leg, injuries can occur due to this loss of sensation.
To examine means to weigh, to look at, to measure and account. We examine by observing the parts and how it operates as a whole. Thus one might examine an idea in an essay. Here is how:
1 To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately. 2  To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.