: the chief artery of the thigh lying in its anterior inner part
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The femoral artery can be felt between the groin and the hip in each upper thigh.—Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024 But the other bullet took the life of Vu’s fifth-grade son, Aaron Vu, piercing the femoral artery in his thigh.—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025 More recently, Episode 4 ended with Muse lugging a man into a gruesome lair of sorts, to extract an unhealthy amount of blood from a femoral artery.—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025 As far as anyone can tell, Tommy was en route to the group shortly after lunchtime on Dec. 22 when a stray bullet from someone else in the area pierced his driver’s side door and struck the femoral artery in his left leg.—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025 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
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