CAROTID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carotid mean? 

• CAROTID (adjective)
  The adjective CAROTID has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck

  Familiarity information: CAROTID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAROTID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

carotid artery (either of two major arteries of the neck and head; branches from the aorta)

 Context examples 

The cavity surrounding the internal carotid artery on either side of the optic chiasm.

(Carotid Cistern, NCI Thesaurus)

Doxapram, independent of oxygen levels, directly stimulates the peripheral carotid chemoreceptors, possibly by inhibiting the potassium channels of type I cells within the carotid body, thereby stimulating catecholamines release.

(Doxapram, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm of the chemoreceptor system (e.g. carotid body, glomus jugulare, glomus vagale) for which the malignancy status has not be established.

(Carotid Body Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A cluster of cells that function as chemo-receptors, located at the bifurcation of the carotid artery.

(Carotid Body, NCI Thesaurus)

It was pierced by a very small but very deep wound, which had divided the carotid artery.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A narrowing of the carotid artery lumen.

(Carotid Artery Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the common carotid artery at the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage that ascends the neck forming eight different branches.

(External Carotid Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Any artery arising from the external carotid artery.

(External Carotid Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the cavernous portion of the internal carotid artery that supplies the posterior pituitary gland.

(Inferior Hypophyseal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include aorticopulmonary, carotid body, jugulotympanic, and mediastinal paragangliomas.

(Parasympathetic Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)