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carotid, a. and n.|kəˈrɒtɪd|
[ad. Gr. καρωτίδ-ες, f. καροῦν ‘to plunge into deep sleep, to stupefy’, because compression of these arteries is said to produce carus or stupor. (Galen.)]
A. adj. Epithet of the two great arteries, one on either side of the neck, which supply blood to the head.
Each of the two primitive carotid arteries afterwards divides into two branches, called the external and internal respectively.1667E. King in Phil. Trans. II. 450 Which made me open the Carotid Artery. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 193 It had passed beneath, and torn the internal carotid artery. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 649 They ascend..to the upper part of the larynx, where they divide into the external carotid and the internal carotid arteries.
b. Pertaining to or adjoining the carotid arteries; e.g. carotid canal, the tunnel through the temporal bone which gives passage to the internal carotid, and its plexus of nerves (carotid plexus).
1842E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. 26 Nearer to the apex of the bone is a large oval opening, the carotid foramen. 1877Burnet Ear 88 The carotid canal is the simplest in structure..of the canals in or about the tympanum.
B. n. A carotid artery.
1741Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 90 The Arteries derived from the external Carotids. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 477 After the incision into the carotid of a horse. 1862Calverley Verses & Tr. 46 With vest blood-spotted, and cut carotid. |