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Definition of Carotid
1. Adjective. Of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck.
Definition of Carotid
1. n. One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.]
2. a. Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.
Definition of Carotid
1. Noun. (anatomy) A number of major arteries in the head and neck. ¹
2. Adjective. Relating to these arteries ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carotid
1. an artery in the neck [n -S]
Medical Definition of Carotid
1. Pertaining to the carotid artery. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carotid
Literary usage of Carotid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The External carotid Artery. The external carotid artery (Fig. ... In the child
it is somewhat smaller than the internal carotid, but in the adult the two ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"COMMON carotid ARTERIES. 365 as the hyoid bone, and occasionally much higher.
... One case was observed by i, in which the carotid artery, measuring one ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"large as a normal internal carotid, and that had been maintained by the free
anastomosis from the branches of the external carotid on the other side with ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"Ligature of the external carotid artery, together with independent ligature of
the branches arising from the first inch of its course, ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"This is as certainly true of the carotid arteries as of other blood vessels.
This paper is based upon specimens whose arteries were injected through the ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"Very rarely, the common carotid ascends in the neck without ¡my subdivision, the
internal carotid being wanting: and in two cases, the common carotid has ..."
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