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Sheriff Bianco attributed Solis’s death to suffocation and blood loss after his jugular vein was punctured.
—Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Instead of being directly implanted in the brain, it’s inserted into the jugular vein at the base of the neck in a minimally invasive procedure.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2024
Instead, Synchron deploys a self-expanding stent with electrodes embedded in it to the brain's surface via the jugular vein.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
Synchron View 1 Images Rather than cut a chunk of skull away to install a brain-computer interface like Neuralink, Synchron feeds electrodes up through the jugular vein to the motor cortex.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
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First Known Use
1597, in the meaning defined above
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“Jugular vein.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jugular%20vein. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
jugular vein
noun
: any of several veins on each side of the neck that return blood from the head
called also jugular
Medical Definition
jugular vein
noun
: any of several veins of each side of the neck: as
a
: a vein that collects the blood from the interior of the cranium, the superficial part of the face, and the neck, runs down the neck on the outside of the internal and common carotid arteries, and unites with the subclavian vein to form the brachiocephalic vein
called also internal jugular vein
b
: a smaller and more superficial vein that collects most of the blood from the exterior of the cranium and deep parts of the face and opens into the subclavian vein
called also external jugular vein
c
: a vein that commences near the hyoid bone and joins the terminal part of the external jugular vein or the subclavian vein
called also anterior jugular vein
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