femoral artery

noun

, Anatomy.

1. the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.

Word History and Origins

Origin of femoral artery¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

In a study published by Emergency Medicine Australasia, Taylor found that a simple technique to compress the femoral artery was much more effective in stopping bleeding than traditionally-used tourniquets.

From TechCrunch

As he scanned the ground, a bullet cut through the air and hit the officer in the upper thigh, ripping open his femoral artery, according to the military’s investigation of the incident.

From Time

It’ll warm the blood in your femoral artery, which, in turn, helps to warm your whole body.

From Outside Online

A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.

From The Daily Beast

A doctor at the adjacent dressing-station found that the femoral artery in the thigh had been severed.

From Project Gutenberg

Boy Scout (who has negotiated fairly successfully a fractured jaw, broken forearm and severed femoral artery).

From Project Gutenberg

And there was Becker the blue-eyed German prisoner with a bullet through his femoral artery and his hip.

From Project Gutenberg

The risk of gangrene is diminished by a course of digital compression of the femoral artery, before operating on the aneurysm.

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The genius of Hunter led him to tie the femoral artery, in a case of popliteal aneurism, leaving the tumour untouched.

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