How to Use jugular vein in a Sentence

jugular vein

noun

• And yes, the entrance into the body is through the jugular vein to get there.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
• The machine then pumped the blood back into the jugular vein in Kelsey's neck.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• The front of the neck—on the sides of the throat—is where the carotid arteries and jugular veins lie, Neira explained.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 26 Jan. 2024
• The stent-like device is threaded through a small slit in the neck up through the jugular vein and pushed into the brain.
  — WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
• She had been stabbed once in the neck, which severed her jugular vein and carotid artery, the Post reports.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The second wound was on the front side of the neck, measured 4 cm long and penetrated the carotid artery and the jugular vein.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 3 Mar. 2020
• Doctors found damage to Lee's jugular vein, the spokesperson said at the time.
  — Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2024
• There were tubes and probes in his lungs, arteries and jugular vein.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Miller testified that Gallagher stabbed the detainee twice in the right side of the neck in the vicinity of the jugular vein.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
• Sandy Scheuer, who was just passing through the area on her way to class, was struck by a bullet that hit her jugular vein.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Saunders said Mariah’s jugular vein and carotid artery had been cut in the attack.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
• The freshened blood returns to the body via a tube inserted into the right jugular vein for travel to the heart.
  — Ron Winslow, STAT, 6 Aug. 2020
• Neely was shot between his right shoulder and neck, missing the jugular vein and spine by a fraction of an inch.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2018
• Glover fired four times, striking Awad three times, including a shot that pierced his jugular vein.
  — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• From the ground, doctors who saw the images noticed that there didn’t appear to be any blood flow in the astronaut’s left jugular vein.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
• For instance, the Q collar was developed around 2016 to mimic how the woodpecker's long tongue can wrap around the head and pinch the jugular vein.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022
• In 2010, a rooster killed its owner by slashing his jugular vein in West Bengal state.
  — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2021
• She was stabbed in a jugular vein, the newspaper reported.
  — Fox News, 17 May 2018
• By measuring the pulsation of the carotid artery and the jugular vein, the system calculates the wearer’s heart rate and blood pressure.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2023
• Instead, it’s implanted through a slit at the base of the neck and threaded up through the jugular vein into the motor cortex—the part of the brain that directs movement.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• They are most commonly put into one of the jugular veins in the neck or the subclavian vein under the collarbone.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 June 2023
• At 2 years old, Leo Krim was too young to defend himself when his nanny dragged a knife across his neck, slicing a jugular vein and striking his spinal cord.
  — Jan Ransom, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• To avoid injury while using a massager, Giordano says to stick to the muscles in the back of your neck (especially avoid massaging right on the jugular vein on the side of the neck).
  — Milan Polk and Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health, 8 June 2022
• From there, someone with this infection might develop a blood clot in their jugular vein.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Nov. 2018
• Reisman also noted the concerning case of a blood clot of a NASA astronaut in 2018 when the blood in their jugular vein appeared to reverse its flow.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 July 2023
• Johnson had surgery to remove a new tumor from her neck in January, but doctors couldn’t get it all — it was wrapped around her jugular vein and a bundle of nerves.
  — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2021
• The killers trapped him in a narrow hallway, pounded on his head with something heavy, stabbed him 27 times, severing, among other things, his jugular vein.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
• Next the funeral director makes a small incision near the clavicle, to access the jugular vein and carotid artery.
  — Mark Evely, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
• The slashing cut his jugular vein and injured his thyroid cartilage.
  — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2021
• The bullet entered de Young’s mouth, tore through his throat on a downward trajectory and severed his jugular vein.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024