innominate

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This was no London that he knew, this scented city of Spring, this tropic gloom, this mad innominate cavern that engorged them.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Make out the external jugular, the innominate, and its two branches, and the pulmo-cutaneous and vena cava superior.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Dr. Peixotto of Portugal applied a precautionary ligature to the innominate in a case where secondary hæmorrhage occurred from the carotid.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Sometimes, especially among the Ungulata, all the branches may rise from one common trunk; at other times two innominate arteries may be present; this is commonest in the Cheiroptera, Insectivora and Cetacea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

The inferior thyroid veins which drop their blood into the innominate are obstructed by valves at their junction.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various