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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

IAO 0000232

This class represents the adult and developing structures'

RO 0002175

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

UBPROP 0000011

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

depicted by

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

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