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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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

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