Yet he continued to pull it very slowly, especially as it passed the jugular-would it pull open the seal that had formed? No; the jugular had healed itself.
One common manifestation of this is jugular venous distention, where the jugular vein that brings blood back to the heart takes on more blood and becomes enlarged and distended in the neck.
And hey, better to get slashed or stabbed into some thick skull bone rather than straight into a jugular in your neck- we're not saying it's ideal, but it's better than bleeding to death instantly.
Before him lay the greatest mystery of his life. Upon the floor at his feet was the dead body of a strange man. The neck was broken and the jugular severed as by the fangs of a wild beast.