external carotid artery

1. 1.

   the branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the face and tongue and external parts of the head

   Synonymsexternal carotid

   Broadercarotid artery

Questions about external carotid artery

What does external carotid artery mean?

external carotid artery means "the branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the face and tongue and external parts of the head".

What is another word for external carotid artery?

Close synonyms include external 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 external carotid artery a common word?

external 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.