carotid triangle (English, noun)
expansion: carotid triangle (plural carotid triangles)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A space in each lateral half of the neck that is bounded in back by the sternocleidomastoid muscle, below by the omohyoid muscle, and above by the stylohyoid and digastric muscles.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
meronyms: inferior carotid triangle
superior carotid triangle
glosses: Either of the two spaces in the anterolateral neck.
tags: dated
Forms:
form: carotid triangles
tags: plural