Carotid in a sentence

The arterial blood pressure homeostat Stretch receptors in the walls of the aortic arch and carotid sinus (at the beginning of the internal carotid artery ) act as arterial blood pressure sensors.

The problem was determined to be a blocked carotid artery, and he had one of the earliest known carotid bypass operations to correct it.

This is primarily done on the carotid arteries ( Carotid endarterectomy or CEA) but was first performed on the superficial femoral artery.

In recounting the gruesome manner in which the woman was killed, Berbice High Court Judge, Simone Morris-Ramlall, said that Hunt attacked his partner in broad daylight with a knife, attacking her in such a manner that her carotid arteries were severed.

One wound to his neck was close to major blood vessels, including a jugular vein and carotid artery.

The neck hold maneuver, called a carotid control hold, restricts the flow of blood to a person's brain, rendering them temporarily unconscious.

Though Metz plainly said the officers did nothing wrong, Wilson announced new policies in mid-June amid the growing protests, including a ban on the carotid control hold that was used on McClain.

And it was made clear again this week when law enforcement agencies across the county and beyond swiftly banned the use of the carotid restraint – including some that had defended its use aggressively over the last several years.

Several agencies have banned the use of pepper spray and carotid holds, and there are calls to defund police and redirect those funds toward mental health and social services.

During the operation, the surgeon will make a small incision in the side of the neck so they can see the carotid artery, which will then be clamped shut.

The hydrogel stopped high pressure bleeding from pig carotid arteries with 4~ 5 mm-long incision wounds and from pig hearts with 6 mm diameter cardiac penetration holes.

These adult stem cells were then transported to the brain through the carotid artery using an interventional catheterization procedure done through a small hole in the groin artery.

William Brown suffered dissection of the left internal carotid, a major blood vessel by the neck and head, due to the incident.

Abstract- No. 209: Carotid artery infusion via implantable jet-port-allround catheters for squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsils, to be published in the Journal of Vasucal Access (J Vasc Access).

I'm Ripley, and this broadcast is the Alien Queen Mother snarling into my carotid artery.

Mercury in our bodies puts us at the risk of dying from coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction and a documented rapid progression of carotid atherosclerosis.

Police say the mother hit her daughter several times with the axe, severing the teenager’s carotid artery in her neck.

The recent study, which was performed on rats, targets the carotid bodies: collections of neurons on each side of the neck that signal the brain to breathe.

If the decrease in blood pressure is systemic (rather than occlusion of the renal artery) baroreceptors in the carotid sinus and aortic arch will be stimulated.

Microvascular techniques are used in EC-IC bypass surgery and in restoration carotid endarterectomy.