Search Result for "jugular_vein":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. veins in the neck that return blood from the head;
[syn: jugular vein, vena jugularis, jugular]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jugular \Ju"gu*lar\, n. [Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Anat.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jugular vein n 1: veins in the neck that return blood from the head [syn: jugular vein, vena jugularis, jugular]