Radiology Lexicon

Last uploaded: November 20, 2020
Preferred Name

common carotid artery

Synonyms

carotid artery

Definitions

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. [MeSH]

ID

http://radlex.org/RID/RID584

Branch_Of

http://radlex.org/RID/RID581

Definition

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. [MeSH]

Has_Branch

http://radlex.org/RID/RID684

http://radlex.org/RID/RID585

label

RID584

Member_Of

http://radlex.org/RID/RID38751

Part_Of

http://radlex.org/RID/RID13183

Preferred_name

common carotid artery

Preferred_name_German

Arteria carotis communis

prefixIRI

RID584

Radlex_version_of_class_change

08/19/2014

Source

Playbook

Synonym

carotid artery

UMLS_ID

C0162859

subClassOf

http://radlex.org/RID/RID479

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