caroticum

It seems likely however that this depressor nerve mechanism plays only a small part in the respiratory reflexes produced by a marked lowering of oxygen contents and that the essential pathway is via the glomus caroticum.

Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech 1965

Since the end of the 18th century we know of the existence of a curious structure in the region of the sinus, the glomus caroticum or carotid body which, in man, extends over only a few millimetres.

Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech 1965

Heymans not only discovered the role, hitherto quite unknown, of certain organs (glomus caroticum and glomus aorticum), he also greatly enlarged our field of knowledge concerning the regulation of respiration.

Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech 1965

Behind the angle of bifurcation of the common carotid artery is a reddish-brown oval body, known as the glomus caroticum (carotid body).

VI. The Arteries. 3. The Arteries of the Head and Neck. a. The Common Carotid Artery 1918

—In certain organs, viz., the heart, the liver, the suprarenal and parathyroid glands, the glomus caroticum and glomus coccygeum, the smallest bloodvessels present various differences from true capillaries.

V. Angiology. Introduction 1918

These glands include the thyroid, the parathyroids and the thymus; the pituitary body and the pineal body; the chromaphil and cortical systems to which belong the suprarenals, the paraganglia and aortic glands, the glomus caroticum and perhaps the glomus coccygeum.

XI. Splanchnology. 4. The Ductless Glands 1918

The medullary portions of the suprarenal glands and the glomus caroticum belong to the chromaphil system.

XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems 1918

Recently it has been shown that similar chemo-receptors located in the area covered by the depressor nerves (glomus aorticum) have an analogous structure to that of the glomus caroticum (Comroe,

Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech 1965