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carotid arteries

carotid arteries is the plural of carotid artery.

Meaning of carotid artery

Noun

carotid artery (plural carotid arteries)

  1. Synonym of carotid.
    • Mistakes such as a patient's near suffocation from a sponge that Sims forgot to remove from his mouth and Sims's failure to stanch a patient's bleeding from the carotid artery were also given short shrift.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 63
    Synonyms:
    carotid

Questions about carotid arteries

What is carotid arteries the plural of?
Carotid arteries is the plural of carotid artery.

Words near carotid arteries in the dictionary

  1. caroticoclinoid
  2. caroticotympanic
  3. caroticotympanic arteries
  4. caroticotympanic artery
  5. carotid
  6. carotid arteries
  7. carotid artery
  8. carotid plexus
  9. carotid sinus
  10. carotid sinuses
  11. carotid triangle

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