femoral artery
the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
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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.
How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark? | noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) | September 24, 2021 | TechCrunchAs 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.
'They Want the West to Be Frightened.' Ukraine's President on Why Russia Sent Troops to the Border | Simon Shuster / Shumy, Ukraine | April 12, 2021 | TimeIt’ll warm the blood in your femoral artery, which, in turn, helps to warm your whole body.
A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.
A doctor at the adjacent dressing-station found that the femoral artery in the thigh had been severed.
Australia in Arms | Phillip F.E. Schuler
Boy Scout (who has negotiated fairly successfully a fractured jaw, broken forearm and severed femoral artery).
And there was Becker the blue-eyed German prisoner with a bullet through his femoral artery and his hip.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign | Robert Valentine DolbeyThe risk of gangrene is diminished by a course of digital compression of the femoral artery, before operating on the aneurysm.
Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander MilesThe genius of Hunter led him to tie the femoral artery, in a case of popliteal aneurism, leaving the tumour untouched.
History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 | Henry Thomas Buckle
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