Definition of Carotid artery

1. Noun. Either of two major arteries of the neck and head; branches from the aorta.


Definition of Carotid artery

1. Noun. (anatomy) Either of a pair of arteries, each side of the neck, which branch from the aorta and supply blood to the head ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Carotid artery

1. A key artery located in the front of the neck that carries blood from the heart to the brain. Cholesterol plaques on the inner wall of the carotid artery can lead to stroke. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carotid Artery

carotenoid
carotenoids
carotenoprotein
carotenosis cutis
carotic
caroticoclinoid ligament
caroticotympanic
caroticotympanic arteries
caroticotympanic canaliculi
caroticotympanic nerve
carotid
carotid-cavernous fistula
carotid-cavernous sinus fistula
carotid-vertebral artery anastomoses
carotid arteries
carotid artery (current term)
carotid artery thrombosis
carotid body
carotid body cell
carotid body tumour
carotid bruit
carotid bulb
carotid canal
carotid doppler
carotid duct
carotid duplex
carotid foramen

Literary usage of Carotid artery

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. ... Externally, in the lower part of its course, is the internal carotid artery. ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"The operation of tying the common carotid artery may be necessary in a wound ... It occasionally happens that the carotid artery bifurcates below its usual ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"LIGATION OF THE COMMON carotid artery FOR HEMORRHAGE FROM THE CHEEK; ... As soon as preparations could be made the left common carotid artery was tied just ..."

4. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"THE COMMON carotid artery. (Fig. 115, /and t/i; Fig. 119, a). The two common carotid arteries arise from the innominate artery in the manner already ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1887)
"... the subclavian should be found in the adult as a branch of the external carotid; but this is not the case. The common carotid artery, ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"By cutting into the upper part of this space, and slightly displacing the Sternocleidomastoideus, the common carotid artery may be tied below the ..."

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