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Internal Carotid Artery
An artery arising from the bifurcation of the common carotid artery on each side of the body at the level of the third or fourth cervical vertebrae that ascends the neck into the head with numerous branches supplying the anterior brain, eye, forehead and nose. (NCI Thesaurus)
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