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  • Femoral artery was accidentally cut and that was pretty much it.

    Veracity LAURA BYNUM 2010

  • Without hesitation she drove a large catheter into the Femoral artery in his thigh, leaving the unsecured end to spasm as blood pumped through it onto the floor.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • Now, in my final weeks of med school, I've come across Thursday afternoon palsy, more commonly known as Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment, or meralgia parasthetica:

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • "Femoral line's in," she said, her tone breezily calm.

    Mortal Remains Clement, Peter, M.D 2003

  • OTHER NAMES: Femoral, inguinal, or umbilical hernia; rupture.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Figure 10 shows Thigh or Femoral Rupture, which comes out on the upper part of thigh, just below the crease or depression between abdomen and thigh.

    Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute

  • Thigh Rupture (Femoral) is that form of rupture which appears at the upper part of the thigh.

    Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute

  • Femoral vein in its compartment, f, of the femoral sheath.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Femoral artery enclosed in e, its compartment of the femoral sheath.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Femoral sheath laid open to show its three compartments.

    Illustrations. Fig. 545 1918

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