Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carotid artery

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English

Syllables: carotid artery
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of carotid.

Example Sentences

"Mistakes such as a patient's near suffocation from a sponge that Sims forgot to remove from his mouth and Sims's failure to stanch a patient's bleeding from the carotid artery were also given short shrift."
"Even a vasocompression between C-Spine and mandibula during a hyperinclination trauma can lead to a dissection of the internal carotid artery (ICA) [ 1, 2 ]."
"Bronca can almost feel the hard pulse of blood in five other carotid arteries and hear its rush in five other sets of ears as she leans her hands on the table."

Inflected Forms

carotid arteries (plural)

Phrases

common carotid artery external carotid artery internal carotid artery

Synonyms

carotid arteria carotis

Questions

What does carotid artery mean?: Synonym of carotid.

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