common carotid artery plus branches

A bilaterally paired branched artery that originates from the aortic arches and divides into and includes as parts the internal and external carotid arteries[cjm]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the common carotid artery plus branches is

A bilaterally paired branched artery that originates from the aortic arches and divides into and includes as parts the internal and external carotid arteries[cjm]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the common carotid artery plus branches is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the common carotid artery plus branches connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. a kind of systemic artery.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the common carotid artery plus branches. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as carotid artery, carotid artery system, common carotid artery, trunk of common carotid tree and a. carotis communis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001530, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: systemic artery.
• Connected to: arch of aorta.
• contains: external carotid artery, internal carotid artery, trunk of common carotid artery and wall of common carotid artery.
• subtype: carotid sinus, left common carotid artery plus branches and right common carotid artery plus branches.
• flows to: internal carotid artery and aorta.
• branching part of: external carotid artery and internal carotid artery.
• develops into: external carotid artery.

Questions

Where is the common carotid artery plus branches?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the common carotid artery plus branches connect to?

A kind of: systemic artery.

Is the common carotid artery plus branches the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.