Crossword clues for brachial
brachial
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brachial \Brach"i*al\or, a. [L. brachialis (bracch-), from bracchium (bracch-) arm: cf. F. brachial.]
(Anat.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining or belonging to the arm. 2 Of the nature of an arm.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to an arm; "brachial artery"
Wikipedia
Brachial means "pertaining to the arm," and may refer to:
- Brachial artery, in anatomy
- Brachial fascia
- Brachial lymph nodes
- Brachial veins
- Brachial plexus, a network of nerves
- Brachial valve, the upper valve in Brachiopods
- Brachialis muscle
Usage examples of "brachial".
She gave up the unequal struggle to cover the wound, but concentrated on getting two fingers over the brachial artery and applying pressure, and was presently rewarded by the sight of the lessened bleeding.
She pulled on the head again, careful not to damage the delicate nerves of the brachial plexus that stretched from the spinal cord to the neck.
She felt the needles dig deep into his flesh, and she kept pushing, hoping to hit the brachial plexus, the set of nerves that runs from the brain to the arm.
With the cruel detachment of a cat with a mouse, the pneuma began disabling him bit by bit, striking almost at will at the brachial, solar plexus, carotid sinus, and larynx.
Force-hold to pinch off that brachial artery, she would have bled out in seconds.
Dean clearly saw an armless man stumbling and screaming in the street, the severed brachial arteries pumping his blood away in bright spurts.
She whiffed up the cuff, listened to the brachial pulse as the pressure was slowly released.
A wash of hot blood poured down the sword as I severed his brachial artery.
There was no pulse in the wrist in either the radial or ulnar arteries, but there was pulsation in the brachial as low as the ecchymosed swelling.
He shifted his feet like a boxer, readying the knife, and looked for the bad places on the big driver to cut or stab--the brachial, radial or carotid arteries, the subclavian or the heart and stomach areas.
The way you were bleeding, I thought the brachial artery was cut, and that runs right next to the nerves.
The round had hit the brachial artery and he was half unconscious with blood loss.
He thrust them aside irrespective of rank, whipped out a lancet (always in a side-pocket), slit Jacob's sleeve up to the shoulder, cut the shirt away, uncovered the spurting brachial artery and two other ample sources of blood on the same limb.
It tore a hole in the brachial artery, which is why you bled so much.
She imagined herself a bizarre corpuscle in the brachial artery of a giantess.