WordNet
n. the chief artery of the thigh; a continuation of the external iliac artery [syn: arteria femoralis]
Wikipedia
The femoral artery is a large artery in the thigh and the main arterial supply to the lower limb. It enters the thigh from behind the inguinal ligament as the common femoral artery, a continuation of the external iliac artery. Here, it lies midway between the anterior superior iliac spine and the symphysis pubis. The common femoral artery gives off the profunda femoris artery and becomes the superficial femoral artery to descend along the anteromedial part of the thigh in the femoral triangle. It enters and passes through the adductor (subsartorial) canal, and becomes the popliteal artery as it passes through an opening in adductor magnus near the junction of the middle and distal thirds of the thigh.
Usage examples of "femoral artery".
He was a magnificent creature, quick and formidable, those horns were sharp as pikes and could rip the belly out of a man or slice through his femoral artery, and he came straight at Sean.
Whether he killed the man with his M-16 at a hundred yards or a crossbow at forty yards, the man was just as dead as if Keith had severed his femoral artery with his knife.
The clinical part of her doctor's mind noted her friends were doing a femoral bypass, opening up the femoral artery and vein in the leg and hooking up a pump to flush her entire vascular system.
A hard bite against his femoral artery almost convulsed him and made tears fall in earnest this time.
But no pumpers, thank Christ, though the femoral artery wasn’.
The only thing she could do, she knew, was to find the femoral artery and tie it off directly.
One of the cuts chopped into his femoral artery and he's lost all the blood a man can and still stay alive.
Swiftly, two incisions were made in each man, one into the large femoral artery just beneath the surface on the inside of each man's thigh, another into the femoral vein.
His need made desire shoot through her when she ran her lips over his leg before she sank her blood teeth into the femoral artery on the inside of his thigh.
The wound was debilitating, but the steel-jacketed round had missed both the thighbone and the femoral artery.
It ripped free of my leg five centimeters left and seven below the entry point, tearing a chunk out of my femoral artery as it went.
He collapsed against the gate, clung to it with one hand and jammed his rag against the juncture of his leg and body trying to stop the gouting blood from his split femoral artery.