internal carotid artery
Arteria carotis interna
In 3 atlases
Definition
A terminal branch of the left or right common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated blood to the brain and eyes[MP].
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Venous drainage
- internal jugular vein
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 4463
- TA98
- A12.2.06.001
- FMA
- 3947
- UBERON
- 0001532
- Wikidata
- Q515848