The two principal arteries supplying the structures of the head and neck. They ascend in the neck, one on each side, and at the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, each divides into two branches, the external (CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL) and internal (CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL) carotid arteries.
    

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Rat carotid artery

The carotid sinus and the cerebral circulation : an anatomical, experimental and clinical investigation, including some observations on rete mirabile caroticum / by Erik Ask-Upmark.

De ligatura arteriae carotidis communis : dissertatio inauguralis akiurgica ... / auctor Carolus Brüninghausen.

Ligation of the common carotid artery for malignant recurrent hemorrhage of the vitreous / George S. Derby.

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The carotid sinus and the cerebral circulation : an anatomical, experimental and clinical investigation, including some observations on rete mirabile caroticum / by Erik Ask-Upmark.

Rat carotid artery

De ligatura arteriae carotidis communis : dissertatio inauguralis akiurgica ... / auctor Carolus Brüninghausen.

Ligation of the common carotid artery for malignant recurrent hemorrhage of the vitreous / George S. Derby.