KROK 1 2007 – Question 86 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
An injured man has bleeding from branches of carotid artery. For a temporary arrest of bleeding it is necessary to press the carotid artery to the tubercle of a cervical vertebra. Which vertebra is it?
- A. V
- B. III
- C. VI
- D. IV
- E. II
Hint
Recall which cervical vertebra bears the large anterior tubercle of its transverse process, known as the carotid tubercle, and count down from the atlas.
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