: any of several veins of each side of the neck that return blood from the head
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This approach also prevented any damage to the eustachian tube, major blood vessels such as the jugular vein and internal carotid artery, and nerves that control swallowing and speech, Labib noted.—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025 His jugular vein was slashed and the hallway in which his killers trapped him was so saturated with blood that detectives had to build a makeshift ramp to get to the body.—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025 Woodpeckers have multiple adaptations for protecting their brains from injury, but occluding their jugular veins is not one of them.—Christie Aschwanden, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2019 The infection can cause a blood clot can form in the internal jugular vein in the neck and then spread throughout the body.—Jurairat J. Molina, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for jugular vein
: any of several veins on each side of the neck that return blood from the head
called alsojugular
Medical Definition
jugular vein
noun
: any of several veins of each side of the neck: as
a
: a vein that collects the blood from the interior of the cranium, the superficial part of the face, and the neck, runs down the neck on the outside of the internal and common carotid arteries, and unites with the subclavian vein to form the brachiocephalic vein
called alsointernal jugular vein
b
: a smaller and more superficial vein that collects most of the blood from the exterior of the cranium and deep parts of the face and opens into the subclavian vein
called alsoexternal jugular vein
c
: a vein that commences near the hyoid bone and joins the terminal part of the external jugular vein or the subclavian vein
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