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Carotid Artery

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What does Carotid Artery mean?

noun

  1. Synonym of carotid.

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One ball had torn through her right lung, another had shattered the carotid artery.
Willa CatherO Pioneers!Project Gutenberg ebook #24
The method most commonly adopted is to go off alone into the jungle and there to stab a knife into the carotid artery.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
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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.
Edward J. (Edward James) WicksonOne Thousand Questions in California Agriculture AnsweredProject Gutenberg ebook #5152
The wound was at once opened and blood found oozing from the distal extremities of the carotid artery and jugular vein, which were promptly clamped.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747