{"id":1606,"date":"2017-03-18T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2017-03-18T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:13:55","slug":"common-carotid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/03\/18\/common-carotid\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Carotid Arteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The carotid arteries supply blood to the head and neck. \u00a0In humans, the right common carotid branches from the brachiocephalic artery and the left common carotid branches directly from the arch of the aorta. \u00a0 On the cat, as shown in the photograph,\u00a0both common carotids branch from the brachiocephalic artery. \u00a0 The common carotid then branches into the internal and external carotid arteries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/carotids-labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1607\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/carotids-labeled.jpg\" alt=\"carotid arteries\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/carotids-labeled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/carotids-labeled-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/carotids-labeled-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/carotids-labeled-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carotid arteries supply blood to the head and neck. \u00a0In humans, the right common carotid branches from the brachiocephalic artery and the left common carotid branches directly from the arch of the aorta. \u00a0 On the cat, as shown in the photograph,\u00a0both common carotids branch from the brachiocephalic artery. \u00a0 The common carotid then branches into the internal and external carotid arteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,26,17,23,246,59],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-aorta","tag-artery","tag-brachiocephalic","tag-carotid","tag-common","tag-vessel","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}