One of: the common carotid artery, or its branches, the external and internal carotid arteries. [ https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3486870&group_id=76834&atid=994764 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid_artery ]
Synonyms: carotid carotid artery subdivision of common carotid artery
Term information
- EHDAA:6385
- EMAPA:18609
- MA:0001925
- Wikipedia:Carotid_artery
- SCTID:362040006
- UMLS:C0007272 (ncithesaurus:Carotid_Artery)
- EFO:0000818
- SCTID:69105007
- AAO:0010217
- FMA:70504
- TAO:0000097
- galen:CarotidArtery
- BTO:0000168
- MESH:D002339
- EV:0100379
- GAID:478
- CALOHA:TS-0116
- NCIT:C12687
- MAT:0000501
- VHOG:0000266
- ZFA:0000097
efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, grouping_class
This is a generic grouping class that is the superclass of the trunks/branches of the common carotid artery. Note that AOs vary widely in how they divide up and generalize arteries
Artery originating at the junction of the first two aortic arches and supplying the anterior brain. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]