femoral artery

A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.

A doctor at the adjacent dressing-station found that the femoral artery in the thigh had been severed.

Boy Scout (who has negotiated fairly successfully a fractured jaw, broken forearm and severed femoral artery).

And there was Becker the blue-eyed German prisoner with a bullet through his femoral artery and his hip.

The risk of gangrene is diminished by a course of digital compression of the femoral artery, before operating on the aneurysm.

The genius of Hunter led him to tie the femoral artery, in a case of popliteal aneurism, leaving the tumour untouched.