(a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen.
(a.) Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.
(a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein.
(a.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(4) 137 internal jugular vein cannulae from 113 patients undergoing open heart surgery were cultured using standard broth culture and a semiquantitative culture technique.
(5) The right carotid artery was divided and bypassed with the reversed right external jugular vein 7 days later in these animals and in 13 normotensive controls.
(6) Glomus body tumors most frequently originate in the middle ear (tympanicum) or on the jugular bulb (jugulare).
(7) By comparison with normal jugular vein tracings, each interval was given three zones of value (normal, intermediate, pathological).
(8) Sensitivity of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity (CGRP-LI) to capsaicin was investigated in different arterial and venous tissues (mesenteric, renal and femoral artery and vein and carotid artery and jugular vein) of the rat.
(9) Hormone concentrations were measured in jugular venous plasma.
(10) Eighteen pig fetuses were fitted with indwelling carotid artery and jugular vein catheters.
(11) Eight adult male rats were chronically cannulated in the jugular vein and placed individually in a sound-attenuated cubicle.
(12) Blood collection, carried out via a jugular cannula or caudal venipuncture, had no significant effect on cortisol level.
(13) Among 203 patients in whom the technique has been used, thrombosis of the subclavian or jugular vein has occurred in only three.
(14) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
(15) Autogenous jugular vein is favored for creation of the shunt.
(16) Thus, we provide strong evidence that our inability to generate a response to field stimulation in the rat jugular vein results from the lack of functional innervation in this tissue.
(17) We describe a method for obtaining blood volume information from the external jugular vein or carotid artery by means of an optical fibre transducer.
(18) Hormone levels were measured in frequent blood samples taken via an indwelling jugular cannula from sexually mature and castrated ferrets.
(19) Ninety two patients were admitted to the clinic after nonradical surgical interventions on the thyroid and jugular lymph apparatus.
(20) Jugulotympanic glomus tumours usually present in the middle ear either primarily or as a result of extension upwards from the jugular fossa.