Without oxygen, brain cells will die within minutes.
THE brain gets its blood supply containing oxygen and nutrients from the carotid arteries on both sides of the neck, and the vertebral arteries in front of the spine. The carotid arteries join up in the circle of Willis from which the vessels branch out to the various parts of the brain.
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