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carotid
/kəˈɹɑt.ɪd/
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kuh-RAH-tid: stress the second syllable.
In kuh-RAH-tid, the first vowel is a light uh. Keep both consonants in the final tid, with a short i between t and d.
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“The illustration labels the carotid artery.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does carotid mean?
noun
- 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.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the carotid artery.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈɹɑt.ɪd/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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One ball had torn through her right lung, another had shattered the carotid artery.
The method most commonly adopted is to go off alone into the jungle and there to stab a knife into the carotid artery.
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That the left carotid does not show the palpitation may be based on the fact that the right stands in much more direct connection with the aorta.
As this is a dangerous location for a layman to interfere with, owing to the branching of the carotid artery, pneumogastric nerve and jugular vein, it should be done by a qualified veterinarian.
The patient was in great collapse, but quickly rallied, only to suffer renewed hemorrhage from the internal carotid nine days later.