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jugular (vein) | American Dictionary

jugular (vein)
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdʒʌɡ·jə·lər (ˌveɪn)/
any of several large veins (= tubes that carry blood to the heart) in the neck

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Blood samples were taken from the jugularvein as described earlier.
The jugular foramen is of particular importance, as it formed the exit for the internal jugularvein.
The catheter was inserted into the internal jugularvein and free neck movement was permitted.
A tracheal cannula was inserted and an external jugularvein cannulated.
Venous blood samples from the jugularvein were taken at 20, 30, 40 and 50 min after dye injection.
A single lumen catheter placed in right atrium after introduction in the right jugularvein permitted collection and reinjection of blood through an alternating clamp.
The early postoperative course was uncomplicated, but anticoagulant therapy was required after 13 days because of thrombosis in the right internal jugularvein.
Animals were bled from the jugularvein twice a week.
In the morning, before offering meals, blood samples were drawn by jugularvein puncture and collected in vacutainer tubes.
The femoral venous approach was abandoned and the right internal jugularvein entered percutaneously.
The right femoral vein and the right internal jugularvein were cannulated using a percutaneous technique.
Access was through the right internal jugularvein.
When die femoral artery is used, it enables an exchange guide wire to form a loopfromthe femoral artery to die femoral or internal jugularvein.
Then 20 ml of blood were taken by venepuncture from the jugularvein.
The lamb (7.4 kg, 16 days old) was anesthetized as described previously, and the carotid artery and jugularvein were surgically exposed.
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