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Veins in the neck that return blood from the head
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jugular
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Word definitions for jugular in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "pertaining to the throat or neck" (especially in reference to the great veins of the neck), from Modern Latin jugularis , from Latin iugulum "collarbone, throat, neck," diminutive of iugum "yoke," related to iungere "to join," from PIE *yeug- "to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jugular \Ju"gu*lar\, n. [Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular , a.] (Anat.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat. 2 (context zoology of fish English) Having ventral fins attached under the throat. 3 (context humorous English) Relating to juggling. n. 1 vein through the neck (or thorax) that returns blood from the ...
Usage examples of jugular.
There is evidence of coral-like building from the aortic arch on downward, as well as throughout the jugular.
Her cuz Whitey Hawthorn lay with his head half-severed from his body, his jugular ripped open, blood puddled under his neck.
A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.
Vietnam Guys alive with half their heads blown off, guys alive with their guts piled in their laps and drawing flies, guys alive with their jugulars spouting through their dirty fingers.
I had decided to stab him in the throat, to kill him quickly by severing, all at once, the jugular vein, the carotid artery and the pneumogastric nerve.
He felt her multiple orgasms at the cellular level, and as he siphoned the sweet, salty fluid from her jugular, her body siphoned seed from him in equal measure.
He used a single swift slash that severed the trachea, the esophagus, the vagus nerves, the carotid artery, and the jugular vein.
It was such a thing that leaped upon the breast of the panthan to tear at his jugular.
It begins by a convergence and union of the lymphatics on the lumbar vertebrae, in front of the spinal column, then passes upward through the diaphragm to the lower part of the neck, thence curves forward and downward, opening into the subclavian vein near its junction with the left jugular vein, which leads to the heart.
Connection is made with the subclavian vein on the upper side at the place where it is joined by the left jugular vein.
Warm compresses, venesection from the sublingual veins, and from the jugular, and purgatives in severe cases, are the further remedies.
Its author had the instinct for the cryptographic jugular, and he compressed into 64 pages virtually the entire known field of cryptology, including polyalphabetics with mixed alphabets, enciphered code, and cipher devices.
I had never known the meaning of insomnia, but for many nights, turgid jugular veins and floating emboli brought me gasping to wakefulness.
Antoine Zippo, who had wrecked one jugular vein last year with a shore-based Navy band in Norfolk and was now trying for two, took a break, shook the spit out of his horn and reached for the beer on the piano.
IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.