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Carotid Arteries

"Carotid Arteries" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Either of the two principal arteries on both sides of the neck that supply blood to the head and neck; each divides into two branches, the internal carotid artery and the external carotid artery.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Carotid Arteries" by people in this website by year, and whether "Carotid Arteries" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
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