Preferred Label : external carotid artery;
Uberon definition : A terminal branch of the left or right common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated
blood to to the throat, neck glands, tongue, face, mouth, ear, scalp and dura mater
of the meninges[MP];
Uberon synonym : external carotid;
Uberon Taxon note : not homologous to the external carotid of zebrafish (Goodrich, 1958) - http://zfish.nichd.nih.gov/zfatlas/Intro%20Page/comparative.html;
check XAO;
Origin ID : 0001070;
UMLS CUI : C0007275;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Uberon cross reference
- branching part of
- develops from
- has branching part
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A terminal branch of the left or right common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated
blood to to the throat, neck glands, tongue, face, mouth, ear, scalp and dura mater
of the meninges[MP]
