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Seventy percent of the blood going to the brain passes through the carotids, Dr. Saadi said.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

The bases of the common carotids contain stretch receptors that immediately respond to the drop in blood pressure upon standing.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Clotting in the carotids, as in the coronaries, results from narrowing of the vessels by atherosclerosis, the deposition of porridge-like material containing cholesterol and other complex chemicals.

From Time Magazine Archive

In other likewise very rare cases a left, or a left and right, superficial carotids are developed and take the place of the then vanished deep or primary carotids.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Thus, both carotids and both vertebral arteries, can be frequently tied at one and the same time without either producing coma or any very marked symptoms.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 by Various