carotid artery
variants: or carotid
: either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head Recent Examples on the Web
//But her procedure will be a complicated one, 3News reported, due to the location of the tumor on top of her optic nerve and carotid artery.
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Joey Morona, cleveland, "WKYC Ch. 3 health reporter Monica Robins reveals brain tumor diagnosis," 15 Oct. 2019
//In 1938, Nobel Prize-winner Corneille Heymans showed that a person’s respiratory rate is driven by connections between the brain and a cluster of oxygen-sensing cells in the carotid artery.
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Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, "Breathing Is Simple. The Way Your Cells Process Oxygen Isn't.," 8 Oct. 2019
//His jugular vein and carotid artery were both sliced.
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, "Roofer sliced co-worker's throat with circular saw, claims he was teased: reports," 10 Aug. 2018
//Saunders said Mariah’s jugular vein and carotid artery had been cut in the attack.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, "Prosecutor: Oceanside father stabbed 7-year-old daughter about 10 times," 6 Aug. 2019
//The blade's tip, meanwhile, was pushing against his carotid artery, which supplies the brain with blood.
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NBC News, "Kansas boy very lucky to survive knife impaling his face," 18 June 2019
//A year in space caused Scott's carotid artery to thicken, DNA damage, gene expression changes, a thickening of the retina, shifts in gut microbes, reduced cognitive abilities and a structural change at the ends of chromosomes called telomeres.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, "What it takes to be an astronaut: the real 'right stuff'," 17 June 2019
//In February, a Texas man died after his e-cigarette exploded and shrapnel tore through his carotid artery.
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Arman Azad, CNN, "This teen's vape exploded, shattering his jaw," 19 June 2019
//Doctors placed a stent in her carotid artery hoping to prevent future strokes.
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Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, "Going to Extremes," 10 June 2019
First Known Use of carotid artery
1667, in the meaning defined above
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