1.   This is the carotid artery which carries blood to the head.

2.   It had ensheathed, but not invaded the carotid artery.

3.   And a scan of his neck revealed a suspicious speck, perhaps the first sign of some narrowing of the carotid artery.

4.   And people who have blockages in their coronary arteries often have narrowing in the carotid arteries, which lead directly to the brain.

5.   Another was that the investigators did not routinely perform tests to determine the degree of blockage in the carotid artery in the neck before surgery.

6.   As it turned out, Fitzsimmons heeded the warning signs and underwent surgery to clean out the carotid artery.

7.   A more serious concern, according to Garewal, is the theoretical possibility that injection of the gel near the carotid artery could precipitate a stroke.

8.   A rescuer attaches the microphone to the top of the carotid artery with adhesive and places the pad on the chest cavity.

9.   Bruce Paltrow refused to submit to the cancer that burrowed rapidly into his throat, penetrated lymph nodes and snaked around his carotid artery.

10.   But in the operation, surgeons had to tie off the external carotid artery because the cancer had wrapped itself around the blood vessel in his neck.