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Carotid   Listen
noun
Carotid  n.  (Anat.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.






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"Carotid" Quotes from Famous Books



... was shut, and she opened it. Inside young Mr. Willoughby Smith was stretched upon the floor. At first she could see no injury, but as she tried to raise him she saw that blood was pouring from the underside of his neck. It was pierced by a very small but very deep wound, which had divided the carotid artery. The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him. It was one of those small sealing-wax knives to be found on old-fashioned writing-tables, with an ivory handle and a stiff blade. It was part of the fittings ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Associated Words: nape, cervical, scruff, atlas, axis, palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, decollete, jugular, jugulum, wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche, colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, retrocollic, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... his ferocious onslaught. And his skilled fingers had found the windpipe and the carotid artery as well. With such force as Brice was able to exert, the other's breath was shut off, while he was all but paralyzed by the digging pressure ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... this section of the neck, just missing the carotid artery," he began, using his pencil to indicate the spot marked on the chart. "While the wound bled profusely it was superficial ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... formerly occupied by the air, is said to place it in a state of preservation in a few minutes. The carcass of an ox was preserved, in France, for two years from putrefaction by injecting four pounds of saline mixture into the carotid artery. Whether any such contrivance can be made available for ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings



Words linked to "Carotid" :   common carotid, external carotid artery, carotid body, carotid artery, internal carotid artery, external carotid, common carotid artery, carotid plexus



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