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Definition of External carotid
1. Noun. The branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the face and tongue and external parts of the head.
Lexicographical Neighbors of External Carotid
Literary usage of External 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 (1901)
"The external carotid Artery. The external carotid artery (Fig. 283) commences
opposite the ... PLAN OF THE RELATIONS OF THE external carotid. In front. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The external carotid Artery. The external carotid artery (Fig. ... The position
of the external carotid artery may be marked out with sufficient accuracy by ..."
3. 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, ..."
4. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1901)
"To ligate the common carotid when the bleeding vessel is a branch of the external
carotid is an inexcusable surgical blunder. ..."
5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The branches >f the external carotid receive blood from the ... and from the
external carotid of the opposite side through ™e anastomoses of the two ..."
6. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck, Raymond Johnson (1895)
"ANEURISM OF THE external carotid. The trunk of the external carotid is so short
... From the important nature and Flu. 477.—Aneurism of external carotid ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Right at this junction of the internal and external carotid there was a well ...
The ligation of the external carotid proximal to the superior thyroid, ..."
8. Diseases of the nose, throat and ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1911)
"EXCISION OF THE external carotid ARTERY AND ITS BRANCHES FOR INOPERABLE CANCER
OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT The excision of both external carotid arteries ..."
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