1.
[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.]
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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.
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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).
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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]