COMMON CAROTID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common carotid mean? 

• COMMON CAROTID (noun)
  The noun COMMON CAROTID has 1 sense:

1. runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries

  Familiarity information: COMMON CAROTID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON CAROTID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

common carotid; common carotid artery

Hypernyms ("common carotid" is a kind of...):

arteria carotis; carotid artery (either of two major arteries of the neck and head; branches from the aorta)

 Context examples 

The brachiocephalic, left common carotid and left subclavian arteries branch from the aorta at this section.

(Aortic Arch, NCI Thesaurus)

One of two arteries (right common carotid and right subclavian) that branch off of the innominate artery.

(Innominate Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

One of two arteries that supply oxygenated blood to the head and neck; the left common carotid branches from the aorta and the right common carotid from the innominate (brachiocephalic artery).

(Carotid artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the aortic arch that divides into the right common carotid and right subclavian arteries.

(Innominate Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the common carotid artery at the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage that ascends the neck forming eight different branches.

(External Carotid Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign or malignant extra-adrenal parasympathetic paraganglioma arising from paraganglia adjacent to or in the bifurcation of the common carotid artery.

(Carotid Body Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the bifurcation of the common carotid artery on each side of the body at the level of the third or fourth cervical vertebrae that ascends the neck into the head with numerous branches supplying the anterior brain, eye, forehead and nose.

(Internal Carotid Artery, NCI Thesaurus)