Carotid

Definitions

Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.

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Examples

“I shoot⟳ Mr. Marlow twice, severing jugulars and cartoids with near surgical precision. He will die⟳ watching me take⟳ what is his away from him. This is my design⟳.”

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