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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the groin and lower extremity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the chief artery of the thigh; a continuation of the external iliac artery

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  • “I needed an angiogram, which is not, as one might think, a message personally delivered by a singing cherub, but a procedure that started with a curiously smiling prep nurse shaving off the right half of my pubic hair, and then inserting a catheter into my femoral artery until it slid up into my chest.”

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  1. arterial blood vessel
  1. artery
  1. arteria

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. profunda
  2. anastomotica
  1. compressor
  2. heteromerous
  1. external iliac artery
  2. heteromeri
  1. heteromeric
  2. vena femoralis
  1. popliteal artery
  2. femoral pulse
  1. femoral vein
  2. arteria poplitea

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