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Discover LudwigThe phrase "jugular vein" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase that refers to the large vein located in the neck which carries blood from the head back to the heart. For example, you might say: "The nurse carefully monitored the patient's jugular vein for signs of distress."
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jugular vein
noun
Any of several veins on each side of the neck, which drain the brain, face and neck of deoxygenated blood.
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The blade missed his jugular vein.
"Kashmir is our jugular vein," he said.
It was about two inches from my jugular vein.
The object punctured Emanuel's jugular vein, the police said.
"They operated on his jugular vein," said the boy's mother.
Internal Jugular Vein Valve Incompetence Is Highly Prevalent in Transient Global Amnesia.
Or, at least, what Mad comics used to call Humor in a Jugular Vein.
The week the story broke, he tried to commit suicide by slicing his own jugular vein.
I've accidentally severed my jugular vein while trying to pit my avocado.
"I was just curious where the jugular vein is," she said.
Yet it was precisely England's failure to find the jugular vein that revitalised Scotland.
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