Common Carotid (Noun)
Meaning
Runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The right common carotid arises directly from the aorta or by a bicarotid trunk together with the left, they rise one on either side the trachea below.
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- Both arteries rise along sides the neck in sheaths.
- Each artery is surrounded by a plexus of the autonomic nerves, termed the carotid plexus that extends upwards higher carotid bifurcation in form of carotid nerve.
- They run upward in the neck and mostly enclosed by the fibrous carotid sheath to divide at the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into the external and internal common carotid arteries respectively.