a. Pathol. and Phys. [ad. Gr. καρωτικός stupefying, soporific, f. καροῦν to stupefy. Cf. F. carotique.]

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  1.  a. ‘Having power to stupefy or produce stupefaction’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). b. Of the nature of or pertaining to stupor or carus; in a state of carus.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., xvi. 567. He was thought to be carotick, but he was not so; for at length he awaked.

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1881.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Carotic sleep, profound drowsiness.

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  2.  = CAROTID. (rare.)

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1656.  Ridgley, Pract. Physic, 53. The temporal muscle, and the Carotick Arteries.

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1843.  J. Wilkinson, Swedenborg’s Anim. Kingd., I. ii. 85. The cranial or carotic blood.

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