jugulars
Major throat vessels
Jugulars are veins in your neck that carry blood from your head to your heart.
Because they’re so vital to life, the expression the jugular has developed as a metaphor for the most vulnerable part of an organization or process: He went for the jugular suggests that someone attacked in a very effective, damaging way.
Blood-return tubes
- neckHead-body junction
- carotidMajor neck artery
- throatNeck's inner passage
- blood vesselsTubes carrying circulating fluid
pulse · circulation · cervical · subclavian · vasculature · dissection · anatomy · phlebotomy
veins
Blood-return tubes
blood vessels · pulse · circulation · cervical · subclavian · vasculature · dissection · anatomy · phlebotomy · cannulation
throat
Neck's inner passage
- kill shotStrike that terminates target
- lethalCausing or capable of death
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
attack · bite · weakness · exposed · fatal · mortal · defenseless · prey · strike · vital
attack
Aggressive act against another
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
- competitiveDriven by rivalry
cutthroat · destroy · target · exploit · weakness · business · politics · rival · opponent · strategy
jugularscarotid arteries
Paired vessels feeding the brain
carotids · arteries · carotid · aorta · pulmonary arteries
- go for the jugularExploit maximum vulnerability
- going for the jugularAttacking most vulnerable point
- jugular veinNeck's primary blood channel
- goes for the jugularStrikes at weakness mercilessly
- went for the jugularAttacked most vulnerably
- gone for the jugularSought to destroy completely