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Definition of Jugular

1. Noun. Veins in the neck that return blood from the head.

2. Adjective. Relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat. "Jugular vein"

3. Noun. A vital part that is vulnerable to attack. "He always goes for the jugular"

Definition of Jugular

1. a. Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Jugular

1. Adjective. Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to fish with ventral fins attached under the throat. ¹

3. Noun. Vein through the neck (or thorax) that returns blood from the head back towards the heart. Properly this is called the jugular vein. ¹

4. Noun. By extension, any critical vulnerability. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jugular

1. a vein of the neck [n -S]

Medical Definition of Jugular

1. 1. Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein. Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen. 2. Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; said of certain fishes. Origin: L. Jugulum the collar bone, which joins together the shoulders and the breast, the throat, akin to jungere to yoke, to join: cf. F. Jugulaire. See Join. 1. 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. 2. Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares). Origin: Cf. F. Jugulaire. See Jugular. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jugular

juglandin juglandine juglans juglet juglets juglike jugline juglines juglone juglone hydroxylase

juglones jugomaxillary jugs jugsful jugula jugular (current term) jugular bulb jugular duct jugular embryocardia jugular foramen

jugular foramen syndrome jugular fossa jugular ganglion jugular gland jugular glomus jugular lymphatic trunk jugular nerve jugular notch of occipital bone jugular notch of temporal bone jugular plexus

Literary usage of Jugular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The Posterior External jugular Vein commences in the occipital region, and returns the blood from the integument and superficial muscles in the upper and ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Yet this, like the healing which has followed the simple ligation of the jugular vein, is a pure accident. In parietal thrombosis of the. bulb, ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Venesection used formerly to be performed on the external jugular vein, ... The posterior external jugular vein (r. jugularis posterior) begins in the ..."

4. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"When they are double they have this course; the anterior and external jugular vein may be said to begin from the anterior facial vein ; it then receives the ..."

5. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"The internal jugular is alto- ire) her absent in fishes, many amphibia, ... External jugular passing over the Clavicle and going up between that Bi me and ..."

6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"end of the external jugular vein, or sometimes directly into the ... The lower parts of the two anterior jugular veins are generally united by a transverse ..."

7. Diseases of the Ear by Philip D. Kerrison (1921)
"Since the presence of a septic clot near the torcular is no proof that the jugular bulb is not the site of a second infective thrombus, and since also the ..."

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