But the skewer was now so close to the vertebral artery that it was bending it.

但是尖杆离椎动了，使它产了弯曲。

Most important, it had missed both the crucial arteries: the carotid and vertebral.

更重要的是，它没有刺到两个重要的动：颈动和椎动。

Carotid arteries supply the front of the brain, and vertebral arteries supply the back.

颈动为大前部供血，而椎动则为大后部供血。

Dr. Ebersole watched the tip of the skewer safely pass the vertebral artery. " It's sliding pretty easy now, " said Dr. Peterson.

埃伯索尔看着杆子的尖端安全地通过了椎动处。皮特森，“现在移动它非常轻松”。

It's a dissection of an artery, either the vertebral artery in the back or the carotid artery up closer in the front.

这是动的剥离，可能是后部的椎动或前部较的颈动。

" Jeremy, angle it a little toward you." This would move it away from that artery. Dr. Peterson did as asked. " OK, go again." It worked.

“杰里米，把角度朝你那调整一点。”这会使它离开椎动。皮特森照做了。“好的，来吧。”奏效了。

An autopsy confirmed Keith's cause of death to be blunt head trauma, which resulted in dissection of the left vertebral artery and caused a fatal brain bleed.

尸检证实， 基思的死因是头部钝伤，这导致了左侧椎动的撕裂， 并引发了致命的出血。