|
Definition of Jugular
1. Adjective. Relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat. "Jugular vein"
2. Noun. Veins in the neck that return blood from the head.
Specialized synonyms: Anterior Jugular Vein, External Jugular Vein, Internal Jugular Vein
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel
Group relationships: Cervix, Neck
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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jugular
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 ..."