external carotid

Examples

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• The external carotid artery is crucial for supplying blood to the scalp and jaw.

• Surgeons need to be careful when operating near the external carotid artery to avoid damaging it.

• Embolization was performed to interrupt the 20% blood supply from the sphenopalatine branches of the external carotid artery.

  Academic text (2001)

• While talking to the patient, the internal carotid, common carotid, and external carotid arteries were cross-clamped.

  Academic text (2007)

• For example, performing external carotid artery ligation risks damage to the hypoglossal and vagus nerves.

  Academic text (2005)

• Given the large size of the tumor and the adequate size of the feeder vessels, preoperative embolization of the external carotid artery was performed.

  Academic text (2005)

• Knowledge of the migratory pattern of these muscles and the branches of the facial nerve and external carotid artery that they carry with them is helpful in understanding the complex anatomy of the human adult.

  Academic text (2003)

• Angiography of the right internal and external carotid arteries excluded aneurysmal dilation and a vascular tumor.

  Academic text (2006)

• Carotid angiography demonstrated characteristics typical of a large glomus tumor that was supplied primarily by branches of the external carotid artery (Figure 2).

  Academic text (2005)

• The rich blood supply to this muscle and to the auricle is largely derived from perforating branches of the posterior auricular artery, which is a branch of the external carotid artery.

  Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

E

external carotid artery

vsexternal carotid

• Specialized

4.6

A blood vessel that carries blood from the neck to the face, tongue, and outer parts of the head

is the shorter name used for the same vessel

How Superficial

external carotid

• Specialized

1 5.6

internal carotid artery

• Specialized

1 4.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology