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external carotid arteries

external carotid arteries is the plural of external carotid artery.

Meaning of external carotid artery

Noun

external carotid artery (plural external carotid arteries)

  1. The outer branch of the carotid artery that supplies the face, tongue, and external parts of the head.

Questions about external carotid arteries

What is external carotid arteries the plural of?
External carotid arteries is the plural of external carotid artery.

Words near external carotid arteries in the dictionary

  1. external acoustic meatuses
  2. external auditory canal
  3. external auditory canals
  4. external auditory meatus
  5. external auditory meatuses
  6. external carotid arteries
  7. external carotid artery
  8. external cause
  9. external causes
  10. external condom
  11. external condoms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: external carotid arteries (page history and authors); external carotid artery (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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