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n. (carotid artery English)
Usage examples of "carotid arteries".
Physicians and police were convinced that based on blood patterns, the women could not have been standing when the killer severed their carotid arteries.
A strong pulse beat in the carotid arteries on each side of the slender young throat, and Stefan's heart leapt when he felt the miracle of life.
So swiftly that Doug could not even raise his arms, Gordette clamped his left hand over Doug's mouth and nose, yanking his chin up, and with his right hand sliced the blade deeply across Doug's throat, making certain to sever the carotid arteries behind each ear.
His voice brought me back to full consciousness: I'd been slipping into alpha waves because the cold was clamped round my skull and shrinking the carotid arteries below the jawline.
She strained so hard that she could feel the tendons flaring between her neck and shoulders, her pulse pounding like doomsday drums in her temples and carotid arteries, every muscle in her arms and across her back quivering with the effort.
Item three: increased pressure within the carotid arteries can cause momentary blackouts.
His helmet was tethered to the wall to prevent his head from bobbing with the pulse of his carotid arteries.
I knew that I could find the carotid arteries readily enough, but severing them both with a single sweep would require considerable force, given that they were protected by surrounding muscles.
He set the end of his stump just beneath that ear as his other arm encircled Javan's shoulders, the vee of his thumb and fingers lightly bracketing Javan's throat over the pressure points at the carotid arteries.
As my heart pumped nearly hard enough to blow out my carotid arteries, I told myself that I was seeing the egg room not as it was at this moment but as it had been before the industrious gnomes of Wyvern had stripped it and the entire facility around it to the bare concrete.