femoral artery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of femoral artery
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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It involves threading a catheter through the thigh’s femoral artery, behind the heart through the carotid artery and into the skull.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
He ended up with a femoral artery insertion.
From Slate • May 23, 2023
In 2012, she had three femoral artery replacement surgeries in a three-month period.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022
Planners are eyeing a new Mississippi River bridge at Interstate 80, a 3,000-mile femoral artery linking metro New York with San Francisco.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021
Employ them in a subtle negotiation or a knotty problem, and you might as well ask a sergeant of the Blues to take up the femoral artery.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
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