femal artery

A form of femoral artery — The main artery of the thigh that originates as the continuation of the external iliac artery distal to the inguinal ligament and terminates as the popliteal artery as it passes through the adductor hiatus.

Meanings

nounfemal artery (plural femal arteries)

plural femal arteries

  1. misspellingMisspelling of femoral artery.

    They allegedly used a five-inch trapper's knife to sever the femal artery.

    1979 December 15, “Two Assaulted in Bay Village in Separate Incidents”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 3
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    Catheters were inserted into a femal artery andtail artery to allow blood sampling, arterial blood pressure recording and drug infusion.

    2010, Chunli Liu, Yanqin Gao, John Barrett, Bingren Hu, “Autophagy and protein aggregation after brain ischemia”, in Journal of Neurochemistry
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