carotid artery

plural carotid arteries

1. anatomySynonym of carotid.

   Even a vasocompression between C-Spine and mandibula during a hyperinclination trauma can lead to a dissection of the internal carotid artery (ICA) [ 1, 2 ].

   2015 July 22, Moritz Crönlein et al., “Traumatic bilateral carotid artery dissection following severe blunt trauma: a case report on the difficulties in diagnosis and therapy of an often overlooked life-threatening injury”, in European Journal of Medical Research, volume 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2025

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   Mistakes such as a patient's near suffocation from a sponge that Sims forgot to remove from his mouth and Sims's failure to stanch a patient's bleeding from the carotid artery were also given short shrift.

   2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 63

   Bronca can almost feel the hard pulse of blood in five other carotid arteries and hear its rush in five other sets of ears as she leans her hands on the table.

   2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 134

   Synonyms: carotid