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Definition of Jugulum
1. n. The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.
Definition of Jugulum
1. Noun. (anatomy) The neck or throat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jugulum
1. a part of a bird's neck [n -LA]
Medical Definition of Jugulum
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Origin: L.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jugulum
Literary usage of Jugulum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"Above grayish-brown, feathers more or less edged with brownish or rusty, and
tipped with whitish ; lower parts white, except jugulum which is pale ..."
2. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"Guttur is a term used to signify gula and jugulum together; it is simply equivalent
... jugulum becomes naked in a few birds, where a distended crop or craw ..."
3. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"from jugulum to symphysis, 23 inches (58 cm.) ; from jugulum to ensiform, 91/2
inches (24 cm. ... Pulsation visible in the jugulum and over the carotids; ..."
4. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"... tipped with whitish or buffy ; tail without subterminal white band; jugulum
and upper breast much vermiculated with whitish, ayish or dull ..."
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