EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does external carotid artery mean? 

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

1. the branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the face and tongue and external parts of the head

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the face and tongue and external parts of the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

external carotid; external carotid artery

Hypernyms ("external 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 terminal branch of the external carotid artery running from the ramus of the jaw to the pterygopalatine fossa with numerous branches supplying the deep structures of the face.

(Maxillary Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the external carotid artery between the thyroid and facial arteries that runs under the tongue and becomes the deep lingual or ranine artery.

(Lingual Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the external carotid artery supplying blood to the surface of the face.

(Facial Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Any artery arising from the external carotid artery.

(External Carotid Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the external carotid artery that branches into the auricular, arteria princeps cervicis, meningeal, muscular, and sterno-mastoid arteries.

(Occipital Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Either of the two principal arteries on both sides of the neck that supply blood to the head and neck; each divides into two branches, the internal carotid artery and the external carotid artery.

(Carotid artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)