How to Use femoral artery in a Sentence

femoral artery

noun
  • The femoral artery in the groin, just above the crease where the thigh meets the abdomen.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
  • Sayed decided to try the pump, and placed it through her femoral artery.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The dog bit Pettaway in the thigh and tore his femoral artery.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 18 May 2022
  • Jonathan Mattingly was struck in the femoral artery in his thigh.
    — Kala Kachmar, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The round, fired by Taylor's boyfriend, severed his femoral artery.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The dog bit Joseph Pettaway in the thigh and tore his femoral artery.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The femoral artery is a large blood vessel in the thigh that delivers blood to lower limbs.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • The elephant ran a tusk through his leg, narrowly missing the femoral artery.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The bear, a doctor told him, had missed slicing his femoral artery by a millimeter.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Sidney, who suffered a wound to his femoral artery, died soon afterward.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Franklin was shot in his left arm and his right thigh, severing his femoral artery, the affidavit states.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Franklin was shot in his left arm and his right thigh, severing his femoral artery, the affidavit states.
    — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2018
  • First the femoral artery line, next the catheter, then the many cannulas, and finally the spinal tap.
    — David Freyne, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Imagine how your leg would function if all the branches of the femoral artery were ligated.
    — WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Pettaway bled to death after a police dog named Niko bit his thigh and tore his femoral artery.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 17 Dec. 2022
  • One of the shots hit Anthony’s torso and her femoral artery, causing her death.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
  • She was shot in the thigh, and the bullet narrowly missed her femoral artery, Thompson said.
    — Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Mattingly in the leg, requiring surgery to repair his femoral artery.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Jonathan Mattingly in the left thigh, severing his femoral artery.
    — Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Police say the round hit Mattingly in the thigh, severing his femoral artery.
    — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Jonathan Mattingly was struck in the femoral artery by Walker's shot and has survived.
    — Louisville Courier Journal, 1 June 2020
  • The boy’s right arm had been nearly torn off; a gash on his right leg, near the groin, may have cut the femoral artery; some of his fingers were broken.
    — David Quammen, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The bullet shattered Boller’s hip and pierced his femoral artery, according to court papers.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The big difference between me and Arthur was three to five millimeters, from the shark’s tooth to the femoral artery.
    — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
  • During the struggle, Lindahl somehow stabbed himself in a femoral artery.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • His doctor ordered an angiogram, in which dye is injected through a catheter in the femoral artery to show bloodflow in and around the heart.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In one case, a bullet hit a Texas detective in the groin, narrowly missing her femoral artery.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The doctor then inserts the catheter into the femoral artery at the top of the thigh and threads it up to the opening between the heart and the aorta.
    — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The team was able to put an Impella device in place through Malinovsky’s femoral artery.
    — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The procedure uses a thin, flexible catheter introduced through a small incision in the femoral artery near the groin.
    — Memorialcare, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026

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