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.

My carotid artery had ruptured.

The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation.

What's happened since is that bifurcation I described.

I had seven ruptures of my carotid artery.

And on the right you actually see a carotid artery that was engineered.

A doctor from Brazil said he had never seen anyone survive a carotid artery rupture.

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.

And there's kind of a bifurcation people had to choose between fear and acceptance actually fear and indifference they kind of chose suspicion.

And there's kind of a bifurcation people had to choose between fear and acceptance actually fear and indifference they kind of chose suspicion.

(With the bifurcation of the Ministry of Women Development, the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education is now running the Tawana Pakistan Programme).

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 even when we explained that if ABE goes away, all those 7,500 jobs go away too, we sometimes have this bifurcation between business and the social.

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.

I had to go back to the original definition of eroticism, the mystical definition, and I went through it through a bifurcation by looking, actually, at trauma, which is the other side.

Now, they're not always as well sign posted as this one, but you know those times in your life when you come to a bifurcation on the path, and you sense that the potential for change is heightened.

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.

Starting with newspapers, what we saw was high cost as an initial requirement for making information, knowledge and culture, which led to a stark bifurcation between producers who had to be able to raise financial capital, just like any other industrial organization and passive consumers that could choose from a certain set of things that this industrial model could produce.