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common carotid artery plus branches

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A bilaterally paired branched artery that originates from the aortic arches and divides into and includes as parts the internal and external carotid arteries[cjm]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carotid_artery ]

Synonyms: carotid artery system trunk of common carotid tree common carotid artery

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

curator note

This class represents the adult and developing structures'

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Gray506.svg

development notes

in birds and reptiles, develops from arch III and parts of ventral and dorsal aortae

editor note

we follow the FMA and treat the artery as a tree-structure - here we include the internal and external as parts. For the part that excludes the branches, see 'trunk of common carotid artery'

has broad synonym

carotid artery

has related synonym

a. carotis communis

id

UBERON:0001530

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606