Definitions for carotids

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carotids ca·rot·id

Spelling: [kuh-rot-id]

IPA: /kəˈrɒt ɪd/

Carotids is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 509 anagrams from letters in carotids (acdiorst).

Definitions for carotids

noun

1. Also called carotid artery. either of the two large arteries, one on each side of the head, that carry blood to the head and that divide into an external branch supplying the neck, face, and other external parts, and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts.

adjective

1. pertaining to a carotid artery.

Origin of carotids

1660-70; Greek karōtídes neck arteries, equivalent to karōt(ikós) soporific (kár(os) stupor + -ōtikos -otic) + -ides -id¹; so called

Examples for carotids

The probability is that, like the carotid body, it is sympathetic in origin.

It was a puncture of the carotid artery, and you couldn't do that with this if you tried.

The carotid arteries always pass through it in the embryo; but in the higher forms it ceases to be perforated in the adult.

Why do we call the common trunk of the right subclavian and carotid, the arteria innominata?

Should the thrombus be on the carotid arteries, hemiplegia may result from cerebral embolism.

Thus, in the carotid of the horse the velocity was found to be 300 mm.

Compress the carotid, and you obtain the clouding-over of the intellect.

In animals it is easy to attach manometers to the carotid artery and to measure the blood pressure accurately.

But apparently a tear in the carotid artery is the leading cause in strokes among young people.

Light from pressing the eye-ball, and sound from the pulsation of the carotid artery.