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___ artery (brain supplier)
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carotid
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Word definitions for carotid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carotid \Ca*rot"id\, n. [Gr. ?, pl., from ? heavy sleep: cf. F. carotide. The early Greeks believed that these arteries in some way caused drowsiness.] (Anat.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "pertaining to the two great arteries of the neck," from Greek karotides "great arteries of the neck," plural of karotis , from karoun "plunge into sleep or stupor," because compression of these arteries was believed to cause unconsciousness (Galen). ...
Usage examples of carotid.
An anesthetist unceremoniously pried open the snooded jaw and sprayed cocaine down the windpipe, while an IV team deftly slipped catheters into the carotid arteries to oxygenate the brain directly after severance.
IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.
Several connections dangled loose, but the four main tubes to the carotids and jugulars still seemed to be connected to the smoking, badly leaking heart-lung machine.
When the ligature of the carotid branches began and the neurosurgeons could take a small break, Hamid-Jones saw the circulating nurses touch helmets with the neurosurgery chief, who sent a thoughtful glance in his direction.
There was another touchy moment when the IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.
He gently set the body back on the counter and felt for a carotid pulse.
A clot formed inside the heart, eventually got large enough to be caught up in the normal flow of blood, and shot up his carotid artery into his brain.
From there it was pumped straight up his carotid artery into his brain where it caused a massive stroke.
The swift expert chop to the carotid artery temporarily cut off the blood to her brain.
He had taken her by surprise with a karate-type blow, evidenced, the police surgeon told them, by the purple bruises on her neck over the carotid artery and on her forehead, where she had fallen forward and struck her head on the steering wheel.
He grabbed a handful of her hair, lifted her head, and slit the carotid artery.
I begin cutting blood vessels, severing the carotids very low at the apex, moving down to the iliac arteries and veins of the pelvis.
Still in the throes of my rage, I ripped out his left carotid artery with my fingernails, and squeezing him in a fluctuating embrace as if I were manipulating a bellows, I forced the blood out of him in a stream and drank like a man at a fountain.
With Sanchez he managed to secure the carotid artery in his death grip and she was dead within ten seconds.
Joel, who is implying that Sanchez was killed so efficiently by accident, is speaking of the carotid artery in the neck which, if squeezed, instantaneously cuts off the flow of blood to the brain.