How to Use femoral artery in a Sentence

femoral artery

noun

• The dog bit Pettaway in the thigh and tore his femoral artery.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 18 May 2022
• The dog bit Joseph Pettaway in the thigh and tore his femoral artery.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 13 Oct. 2020
• Jonathan Mattingly was struck in the femoral artery in his thigh.
  — Kala Kachmar, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
• The bullet severed his femoral artery, vein, and nerve.
  — Madeline Levine, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2020
• The round, fired by Taylor's boyfriend, severed his femoral artery.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
• The doctor then inserts the catheter into the femoral artery at the top of the thigh and threads it up to the opening between the heart and the aorta.
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Mattingly was hit in the femoral artery and required surgery.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2020
• The femoral artery is a large blood vessel in the thigh that delivers blood to lower limbs.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
• My right leg was shattered, and my femoral artery severed.
  — Health.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The big difference between me and Arthur was three to five millimeters, from the shark’s tooth to the femoral artery.
  — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
• She was shot in the thigh, and the bullet narrowly missed her femoral artery, Thompson said.
  — Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2022
• The elephant ran a tusk through his leg, narrowly missing the femoral artery.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
• Jonathan Mattingly in the leg, hitting his femoral artery.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2020
• The bear, a doctor told him, had missed slicing his femoral artery by a millimeter.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• Jonathan Mattingly was struck in the femoral artery by Walker's shot and has survived.
  — Louisville Courier Journal, 1 June 2020
• The boy’s right arm had been nearly torn off; a gash on his right leg, near the groin, may have cut the femoral artery; some of his fingers were broken.
  — David Quammen, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
• Franklin was shot in his left arm and his right thigh, severing his femoral artery, the affidavit states.
  — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2018
• Imagine how your leg would function if all the branches of the femoral artery were ligated.
  — WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Pettaway bled to death after a police dog named Niko bit his thigh and tore his femoral artery.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 17 Dec. 2022
• Police say the round hit Mattingly in the thigh, severing his femoral artery.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
• Mattingly was shot in the femoral artery, but has recovered.
  — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2021
• Jonathan Mattingly in the left thigh, severing his femoral artery.
  — Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• In one case, a bullet hit a Texas detective in the groin, narrowly missing her femoral artery.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
• The researchers then conducted MRI scans on the participants and found a reduction in blood flow in the femoral artery in their legs.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2019
• When officers broke in, Walker fired a shot from his gun and police say the bullet struck Mattingly in the femoral artery.
  — Matt Mencarini, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2020
• Mattingly in the leg, requiring surgery to repair his femoral artery.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
• To assess the stiffness of the teens' artery walls, the researchers used a noninvasive device to measure the speed at which a pulse from the heart travels between the carotid artery in the neck and the femoral artery in the leg.
  — Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
• The rooster’s gaff, a sharp blade fixed to its leg for fighting, somehow cut through the officer’s femoral artery, BBC News reported.
  — Fox News, 28 Oct. 2020
• Doctors told the younger Robinson that if he were hit at a slightly different angle, the bullet could have hit his femoral artery or his spine.
  — Robert Gundran, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
• An ultrasound revealed that the pressure of the crocodile’s jaws had generated enough bruising to completely block the femoral artery and vein, cutting off the leg’s blood supply.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024