jugular

The doctor was cutting my neck open to put a line into my jugular to try to get blood into me fast enough to save me.

The new study went straight for that previously untenable jugular.

Both have clear strengths, clear weaknesses, and campaigns that are not afraid to go for the jugular.

These early rehearsal scenes see Simmons go for the jugular, verbally undressing his students with rapacious license.

The camera turns away before heads are smashed; bloodthirsty baboons snarl but are never seen ripping into a jugular.

Or when in the midst of an uncomfortably aggressive tryst, Franklin forced Tara to take a bite out of his jugular.

Not infrequently, when their encyclopedic lack of knowledge is gently pointed out, they go for the reproductive jugular.

Deeper and deeper the crooked teeth dug; and then with a burst of bright blood, they pierced the jugular vein itself.

Kill by cutting the jugular vein with a sharp pen-knife, just under the sides of the head, and hang them up to bleed.

(ii) If there be thrombosis of the bulb of the jugular vein.

He would tear Thoreau's jugular out if he had half a chance.

But Professor Huxley has kindly informed me that he has discovered a jugular fish in the Permian deposits.