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I'm reading now that it was an aortic dissection. Not carotid. Yeah, nit-picky.
Yeah, I was thinking that carotid had to do with the heart (the "car-" prefix, like cardiac). But it's in the neck! Big difference!
• carotid (adj.)
1540s, "pertaining to the two great arteries of the neck," from Greek karotidēs "great arteries of the neck," plural of karotis, from karoun "plunge into sleep or stupor," because compression of these arteries was believed to cause unconsciousness
• cardiac (adj.)
"of or pertaining to the heart," c. 1600, from French cardiaque (14c.) or directly from Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos "pertaining to the heart," from kardia "heart" (from PIE root *kerd- "heart"). Cardiac arrest is attested from 1950.
