: the chief artery of the thigh lying in its anterior inner part
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The team was able to put an Impella device in place through Malinovsky’s femoral artery.—Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2026 Sidney, who suffered a wound to his femoral artery, died soon afterward.—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 The procedure uses a thin, flexible catheter introduced through a small incision in the femoral artery near the groin.—Memorialcare, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026 His doctor ordered an angiogram, in which dye is injected through a catheter in the femoral artery to show bloodflow in and around the heart.—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for femoral artery
: the chief artery of the thigh that is a continuation of the external iliac artery lying in the anterior part of the thigh and is undivided until a point about two inches (5 centimeters) below the inguinal ligament where it divides into a large deep branch and a smaller superficial branch see deep femoral artery