jugular vein
Neck's main vessel
The jugular veins are the major blood vessels in the neck that carry blood from the head back to the heart.
The phrase go for the jugular means to attack someone's most vulnerable point—an allusion to predators targeting the throat for a killing bite.
- blood vesselTube conveying circulation
- vena cavaLarge vessel entering heart
- tracheaRespiratory airway tube
- vampireBlood-drinking undead creature
- sternocleidomastoidNeck muscle for rotation
neck artery · vessel · heart · vital organ · central line · vasculature · severed · attack · kill · pulse · bleeding · throbbing · arterial blood · wound · cervical vertebrae · blood · pressure · esophagus
- Circulatory Systemheart rate, blood, artery, capillary, arteries
- Neckneck, throat, Adam's apple, larynx, trachea
- blood vesselsarteries, artery, capillaries, capillary, aorta
- circulationblood, circulation, arteries, bloodstream, cardiac
- veinsvena cava, inferior vena cava, superior vena cava, venule, venules
- brain circulationcerebral artery, carotid artery, blood-brain barrier, blood brain barrier, sinus drainage
blood vessel type
jugular veincarotid artery
Main neck blood vessel
artery · aorta · pulmonary artery · femoral artery · coronary artery