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
   • Even a vasocompression between C-Spine and mandibula during a hyperinclination trauma can lead to a dissection of the internal carotid artery (ICA) [ 1, 2 ].2015 July 22, Moritz Crönlein et al., “Traumatic bilateral carotid artery dissection following severe blunt trauma: a case report on the difficulties in diagnosis and therapy of an often overlooked...

   Synonyms:

   carotid