0 one of two arteries (= thick tubes carrying blood from the heart) that pass up through your neck and take blood to your brain
Division of the carotid artery is fatal, and of the internal jugular vein very dangerous on account of entrance of air.
It was pierced by a very small but very deep wound, which had divided the carotid artery.
The throb of the two carotid arteries may be plainly felt by pressing the thumb and finger backwards on each side of the larynx.
Then the physicians who had attended the dead man were called, and testified that the knife-blade had penetrated the left carotid artery, and that he had bled to death—was dead, indeed, before they reached him.
Two years ago I began a series of experiments on epileptics and maniacs, which involved the application of protracted pressure to the common carotid artery on both sides.
The aortic arch was ligated distal to the left common carotid artery and the aneurysm excised.
A reconstruction of the carotid artery was performed with endogenous saphenous vein prosthesis.
The second valvoplasty was performed via die same right common carotid artery in comparable fashion.
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頸動脈(通過頸部的兩條動脈之一,將血液由心臟送到大腦)…
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颈动脉(通过颈部的两根粗血管之一,将血液由心脏送入大脑)…
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