Gross Anatomy USMLE Step 1 Practice Question
A surgeon is first on the scene after a serious automobile accident. He finds a passenger bleeding profusely from the neck and correctly surmises that the bleeding is from the carotid artery. To control the bleeding, the surgeon can compress the carotid artery against the anterior tubercle of which of the following vertebrae?
Answer choices
- ASixth cervicalCorrect answer
- BSecond cervical
- CFourth cervical
- DFifth cervical
- EThird cervical
- FFirst thoracic
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