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jugular vein

NOUN
  1. veins in the neck that return blood from the head

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  • When doctors performed the venogram in February, they discovered blockages in one of his jugular veins and the azygos vein in his chest. CTV News RSS Feed
  • There was well-marked expansile pulsation, purring thrill along the jugular vein and over the tumour, and loud machinery murmur widely diffused along the whole neck and into the thorax. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • She needed 20 stitches to her gaping wounds - terrifyingly near her left eye and jugular vein. The Sun
  • The anterior jugular vein, 3, also occupies this region below; while some venous branches, which join the external and internal jugular veins, traverse it in all directions, and present obstacles to the operator from their meshy plexiform arrangement yielding, when divided, a profuse haemorrhage. Surgical Anatomy
  • Although the infection can involve any of these structures, the most common consequence is internal jugular vein thrombophlebitis.
  • Blood samples were taken from the jugular vein of 30 clinically healthy Iranian adult nonpregnant uniparous ewes at 8 a.m. during 6 consecutive days of summer with a mean ambient temperature of 40° C.
  • He used the jugular vein from a dairy calf, which are specially produced in the US for transplants. The Sun
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  • Just as we crossed a little opening, Johnnie fired, the ball cutting Bear's jugular vein and also his windpipe, but the bear still seemed to have a "hankering" after me and kept coming for several yards. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains
  • Her jugular vein was cut and she sadly passed away, bleeding to death. Times, Sunday Times
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