common carotid

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   runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries

   Synonymscommon carotid artery

   Broadercarotid artery

Questions about common carotid

What does common carotid mean?

common carotid means "runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries".

What is another word for common carotid?

Close synonyms include common carotid artery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common carotid a common word?

common carotid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.