{"id":1659,"date":"2017-06-18T12:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2017-06-18T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:56:42","slug":"arteries-within-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/06\/18\/arteries-within-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteries Within the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February of 2016, model <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/model-katie-may-died-after-chiropractic-visit-father-says\/1564102\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie May died suddenly after a visit to a chiropractor<\/a>. \u00a0The official cause of death was &#8220;vertebral artery dissection.&#8221; \u00a0 During spinal manipulation, the artery which supplies blood to brain was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The brain&#8217;s arteries circle the brain around the pituitary gland consisting of the anterior and posterior communicating artery and cerebral arteries, a collection referred to as the &#8220;Circle of Willis.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0The vertebral arteries arise from the subclavian artery and join to form the <strong>basilar artery<\/strong> which supplies blood to the brain stem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1663\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key.png\" alt=\"brain\" width=\"900\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key.png 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key-250x187.png 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key-500x373.png 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-illustration-with-key-320x240.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February of 2016, model Katie May died suddenly after a visit to a chiropractor. \u00a0The official cause of death was &#8220;vertebral artery dissection.&#8221; \u00a0 During spinal manipulation, the artery which supplies blood to brain was damaged. The brain&#8217;s arteries circle the brain around the pituitary gland consisting of the anterior and posterior communicating artery and cerebral arteries, a collection referred to as the &#8220;Circle of Willis.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0The vertebral arteries arise from the subclavian artery and join to form the basilar artery which supplies blood to the brain stem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,381,247,26,384,65,383,382,380],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-anatomy","tag-arterial","tag-arteries","tag-artery","tag-basilar","tag-brain","tag-cerebral","tag-communicating","tag-vertebral","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}