頸けい動どう脈みゃく小しょう体たい

noun

carotid body; carotid glomus

Medical term for a small cluster of chemoreceptors at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery.

• 頸けい動どう脈みゃく小しょう体たいは血けっ中ちゅうの酸さん素そ分ぶん圧あつを感かん知ちする。

  The carotid body senses the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood.