Usually means: Major neck vein, drains blood.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word jugular vein:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. jugular vein: Merriam-Webster
  2. jugular vein: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jugular vein: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jugular vein: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jugular vein: Vocabulary.com
  6. jugular vein: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. jugular vein: Wiktionary
  8. jugular vein: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. jugular vein: Dictionary.com
  10. Jugular vein: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. jugular vein: Rhymezone
  12. jugular vein: FreeDictionary.org
  13. jugular vein: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. jugular vein: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. jugular vein: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jugular vein: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. jugular vein: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Jugular vein, Vein, jugular: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. jugular vein: Medical dictionary
  5. Jugular vein, Vein, jugular: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jugular vein)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) Any of several veins on each side of the neck, which drain the brain, face and neck of deoxygenated blood.

Similar:
jugular, vena jugularis, internal jugular vein, jugular trunk, renal vein, brachiocephalic vein, jugular foramen, azygous vein, azygos vein, vena, more...

Opposite:
carotid artery, arterial

Phrases:
External jugular vein, internal jugular vein, Anterior jugular vein, jugular vein external, jugular vein internal, more...

Adjectives:
postcaval, sinusoid, eparterial, caval, epipericardial, periportal, antenodal, paravenous, aorticopulmonary, periureteric, perisinusoidal

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Similar:
jugular, vena jugularis, internal jugular vein, jugular trunk, renal vein, brachiocephalic vein, jugular foramen, azygous vein, azygos vein, vena, more...

Opposite:
carotid artery, arterial

Phrases:
External jugular vein, internal jugular vein, Anterior jugular vein, jugular vein external, jugular vein internal, jugular vein anterior, jugular vein distention, jugular vein engorgement, more...

Adjectives:
postcaval, sinusoid, eparterial, caval, epipericardial, periportal, antenodal, paravenous, aorticopulmonary, periureteric, perisinusoidal



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