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Definition of jugular:

  • (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head
  • (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack; "he always goes for the jugular"
  • (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat; "jugular vein"

Sentence Examples:

It was a downward, oblique stab in the throat which had pierced the larynx and penetrated the jugular vein.

Kazan's inch-long fangs should have sunk deep in its jugular.

It would take a fresh grip to reach the jugular, and suddenly Kazan made the deadly lunge.

I asked a famous surgeon once which would kill a man the quicker: severance of the carotid artery or the jugular vein?

Would you have a man turn cherub when he has escaped having his jugular slashed by a margin of two or three inches?

Bleeding locally, however, is far less effectual than the jugular operation.

It was almost a miracle that it did not sever the jugular vein.

It was Harry, in the end, that got his knife into the panther's jugular.

Kellogg had cut his throat, by sawing the zipper track of his shirt back and forth till he severed his jugular vein.

The broken glass had cut a jugular vein and his life ebbed away inside of three minutes.

"The jugular is severed," he said.

Although I instantly snatched it away, it was too late, the one fierce bite having severed the jugular.

Throat, windpipe, jugular, all but actually severed, and the loss of blood frightful.

The upper portion of the windpipe was severed, and likewise the jugular vein.

A head, severed through the jugular arteries, rolled at his feet, grinning and ghastly.

The blade just grazed my jugular artery, inflicting a slight wound.

If the obstruction is in the neck portion of the gullet, it may be felt as a lump in the left jugular gutter.

The silvery moonlight disclosed a dark flood welling from his severed jugular.

It severed the jugular vein, which seemed to have been the aim of the murderer.

The enlarged thyroid body presses upon the trachea and jugular veins.

You might have cut his jugular with your confounded foolishness.

There was no pain, just the throb of my jugular under his mouth.

Again and again a warrior, heaving high his heavy blade, found her point in his jugular before he could strike.

Before he got the weapon out, a dagger slashed his jugular and he went down gurgling in death.

Two men would grab a hog and throw it on its back and cut the jugular vein with a butcher knife.

The jugular vein is severed.

One buried itself in the jugular of the foremost scout, and he huddled down among the soft leaves without a cry.

There may be jugular pulsation, especially evident in the external jugular on the left side.

Pinning down the muzzled dog, the mongrel proceeded to improve his hold by grinding his way toward the jugular.

His throat had a new and deep wound, perilously close to the jugular.

Eight drops injected in the jugular vein of a horse produced immediate tetanus and speedy death.

The boys bled it, as they did their other game, by cutting through the jugular vein and carotid artery; but wishing to relieve Mary's mind as soon as possible, they returned to inform her that her enemy was dead.

Commonly the two posterior, or cardinal gates are much larger than the two anterior, jugular gates.

These are constantly larger than the anterior "jugular gates."

Jugular pores triangular, scarcely half as broad as the large semicircular cardinal pores.

I can consider myself dead lucky that they didn't hook onto my windpipe or jugular.

The rot and maggots continued to eat till they ate through the large or jugular vein of his neck, and he bled to death!

The ball took effect in John Younger's neck, severing the left jugular vein.

When jugular the number of soft rays may be reduced, this being a phase of degeneration of the fin.

The left jugular vein was found completely obliterated.

The dog had severed the jugular vein.

The throat was cut down to the bone, the carotid artery and the jugular severed.

Moore had shot the horse in the left jugular vein, also grazed him along the spinal column with another bullet.

By the time we finally quit we were using only the extreme upper lobe of each lung, and all we could do was to gasp and hang on to the handle of the saw lest the thing should leap at us and sink its teeth in our jugular.

It also covers the places on our neck where we have made futile and fumbling slashes at our jugular vein.

His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.

In the latter region, but more superficially, are some communicating branches between the anterior jugular veins.

The anterior jugular veins may come into view, but can generally be avoided.

At the end of my revolver I compelled one of the drivers to sever his jugular vein.

The jugular or neck vein, is that which is mostly opened; in many inflammatory complaints too much can hardly be taken, provided the bleeding be stopped as soon as the patient appears likely to faint or fall down.

I then injected into the jugular vein a solution of common salt.

The big teeth were clinched deep and tight into the little jugular.

His long fangs closed again on the victim's jugular, and tore it out.

A suture was made in the wound of the abdomen, and four grains of emetic were injected into the jugular vein.

For this purpose I opened the jugular and the carotid of a dog, and received the blood of the vein in a vessel filled with oxygen; it immediately became of a vivid purple, but on its injection into the brain, the animal was very suddenly killed.

To make sure of him this time, we severed his jugular vein.

Still further, it is from this, that after death, when the heart has ceased to beat, it is impossible, by dividing either the jugular or femoral veins and arteries, by any effort, to force out more than one-half of the whole mass of the blood.

The planned technique was the letting of blood from the jugular vein, not chloroform.

The caudal end is rough where it is overlaid by the jugular process.

In the cutting he had not severed the jugular vein, but had cut the wind pipe.

Still further, it is from this that after death, when the heart has ceased to beat, it is impossible by dividing either the jugular or femoral veins and arteries, by any effort to force out more than one half of the whole mass of the blood.

The jugular vein was severed.

If the great vessel which returns the blood from the head to the heart, called the jugular vein, be exposed to view in a living animal, it is seen to be alternately filled and emptied according to the different states of inspiration and expiration.

Likewise, "John Quincy Adams was said to have 'a carnivorous instinct for the jugular vein' of an argument."

Yet as he fell, he fired his revolver and John pitched to the ground, his jugular vein severed by the shot.

As an alternative, Vincent has exposed one of the internal jugular veins into which he introduces a cannula.

Open both jugulars and allow the current to flow till the countenance brightens or the animal sinks.

To the third experiment it may be objected, that there was, in the mode in which they conducted it, no satisfactory evidence that the reciprocal circulation was kept up by the carotid artery and jugular vein.

A pistol bullet had penetrated his throat, dividing the great jugular, and even shattering the spine.

The sinus thrombosis may be partial or parietal, and complete with or without involvement of the jugular bulb and vein.

As he gouged harder, deeper, he felt the terrific pounding of the chief's jugular.

The neck was broken, and the jugular severed as by the fangs of a wild beast.