femoral vein


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Related to femoral vein: popliteal vein
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Noun1.femoral vein - a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheathfemoral vein - a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein
vena femoralis
vein, vena, venous blood vessel - a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood"
thigh - the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
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A post-mortem examination found Sarah-Jayne had a blood clot in the right coronary artery, a clot in the left calf and femoral vein.
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Ultrasound Doppler showed distended and non-compressible left common femoral vein, super ficial femoral and popliteal veins with no color-flow on color Doppler examination.
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Mr Winter was stabbed in his right thigh, severing his femoral vein and artery.
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So a new functioning permanent, dual-lumen, cuffed, hemodialysis catheter (diameter 14, 5 Fr, cuff to tip 19 cm) was inserted in the right femoral vein.
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The thrombi in the femoral vein were cleared, and after the blood flow from the common femoral vein was confirmed, the femoro-iliac venous bypass was completed using a 10-mm PTFE graft (Figure 3).
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Angiographic images through a 16 French hemostatic sheath placed via a left common femoral vein approach established a patent left common iliac vein and IVC with cranial migration of the bullet, now residing at inferior cavoatrial junction.
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The small self-contained devices, about 10 percent of the size of a traditional pacemaker, are placed directly into the heart using a catheter passed through the femoral vein in the leg.
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A post-mortem was carried out on March 22 and his death was found to have been caused by a haemorrhage caused by a stab wound to the femoral vein in his right thigh.
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