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carotid sinuses

carotid sinuses is the plural of carotid sinus.

Meaning of carotid sinus

Noun

carotid sinus (plural carotid sinuses)

  1. A small but richly innervated arterial enlargement that is located near the point in the neck where either carotid artery divides to form its main branches and that functions in the regulation of heart rate and blood pressure.

Questions about carotid sinuses

What is carotid sinuses the plural of?
Carotid sinuses is the plural of carotid sinus.

Words near carotid sinuses in the dictionary

  1. carotid
  2. carotid arteries
  3. carotid artery
  4. carotid plexus
  5. carotid sinus
  6. carotid sinuses
  7. carotid triangle
  8. carotid triangles
  9. carotidal
  10. carotidean
  11. carotidial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carotid sinuses (page history and authors); carotid sinus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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