common carotid artery

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

   Synonymscommon carotid

   Broadercarotid artery

Questions about common carotid artery

What does common carotid artery mean?

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

What is another word for common carotid artery?

Close synonyms include common carotid. 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 artery a common word?

common carotid artery 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.