: the chief artery of the thigh lying in its anterior inner part
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But the other bullet took the life of Vu’s fifth-grade son, Aaron Vu, piercing the femoral artery in his thigh.—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025 More recently, Episode 4 ended with Muse lugging a man into a gruesome lair of sorts, to extract an unhealthy amount of blood from a femoral artery.—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025 As far as anyone can tell, Tommy was en route to the group shortly after lunchtime on Dec. 22 when a stray bullet from someone else in the area pierced his driver’s side door and struck the femoral artery in his left leg.—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025 Authorities would later determine that the femoral artery in Tommy’s left leg had been hit.—Adam Carlson, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for femoral artery
: the chief artery of the thigh that is a continuation of the external iliac artery lying in the anterior part of the thigh and is undivided until a point about two inches (5 centimeters) below the inguinal ligament where it divides into a large deep branch and a smaller superficial branch see deep femoral artery
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