COMMON CAROTID ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common carotid artery mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON CAROTID ARTERY (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 artery" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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 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)

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)