femoral artery

femoral artery

noun Anatomy.
the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.

Origin:
1775–85
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Femoral artery is always a great word to know.
So is jugular. Does it mean:
the movable organ in the floor of the mouth functioning in eating, tasting, and in speaking
pertaining to any of certain large veins of the neck collecting blood from the superficial parts of the head or collecting blood from within the skull
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femoral artery n.

  1. An artery with origin at the continuation of the external iliac artery, with branches to the pudendal, epigastric, circumflex iliac arteries, the deep artery of the thigh, and the descending genicular artery, and terminating in the popliteal artery.

  2. See deep artery of thigh.

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