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jugular trunks

jugular trunks is the plural of jugular trunk.

Meaning of jugular trunk

Noun

jugular trunk (plural jugular trunks)

  1. Either of two major lymph vessels that drain the head and neck: the one on the right empties into the right lymphatic duct or into the right subclavian vein where it joins the right internal jugular vein, and the one on the left empties into the thoracic duct.

Questions about jugular trunks

What is jugular trunks the plural of?
Jugular trunks is the plural of jugular trunk.

Words near jugular trunks in the dictionary

  1. jugular foramen
  2. jugular foramina
  3. jugular notch
  4. jugular notches
  5. jugular trunk
  6. jugular trunks
  7. jugular vein
  8. jugular veins
  9. jugular venous pressure
  10. jugular venous pressures
  11. jugulars

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