These cells normally act as special chemoreceptors located along blood vessels, particularly in the carotid bodies (at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery in the neck) and in aortic bodies (near the aortic arch).

This part of the artery is known as the carotid sinus or the carotid bulb.

Sometimes the pulse cannot be taken at the wrist and is taken at the elbow (brachial artery), at the neck against the carotid artery (carotid pulse), behind the knee (popliteal artery), or in the foot dorsalis pedis or posterior tibial arteries.

And before I left the hospital, after a year of being hospitalized, I had seven ruptures of my carotid artery.

Traditionally, clinical carotid ultrasounds have only estimated the degree of blood lumen restriction, stenosis, a result of very advanced disease.

For example, fractures of the petrous temporal bone can selectively damage the nerve, as can aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery.

Arterial ultrasound, especially of the carotid arteries, with measurement of the thickness of the artery wall, offers a way to partially track the disease progression.

And then a third attempt, which also patched me back together pretty well, A doctor from Brazil said he had never seen anyone survive a carotid artery rupture.

Common causes of ILI include the common cold and influenza, which tends to be less common but more severe than the common cold.

Common frontiers mean common ethnic origins, common cultures, and shared ways of life and environmental conditions.

Jonathan Haidt How common threats can make common ground

Common threats to Europe s energy security demand a common response.

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense Revolts at the idea. Common sense.

It is one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, along with the common kestrel and common buzzard.

We must reassert our common humanity and our common universal values.

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But it needs to be a real union, with common deposit insurance and common resolution procedures, as well as common supervision.

Why should the few carry the many? Common security implies common commitment.

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Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

That's common sense.

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But they did it thanks to a common identity Europe and a common economy.

Common banking supervision is needed for strengthening confidence among countries using common financial backstops.

Common success could make both sides realize that they still have a common cause.

The discussion at the Conference took as its fundamental premise the oneness of creation, a common humanity, a common destiny and a common global environment.

Common, the common I think that's absolutely right, and why? Because there are more drugs to treat common diseases than there are to treat rare diseases.

The reality, however, is that there is no common stance, let alone a common plan.

To understand the common driving forces of urban evolution and find common game changing solutions.

They couldn t arrest him without shooting him in the leg. He made it even harder for them by cutting his carotid artery with a blade, says one of the newcomers, impressed by Taher s strength. He continues He s tall and big, he was a good match for them.

Islam is common sense.

Many with common interests.

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It is common sense.

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