Pharyngeal veins

Pharyngeal veins

Veins of the head and neck. (Pharyngeal visible at left.)

Muscles of the pharynx, viewed from behind, together with the associated vessels and nerves.
Details
Drains from pharynx
Drains to internal jugular
Artery pharyngeal branches of inferior thyroid artery
Identifiers
Latin venae pharyngeae
Dorlands
/Elsevier
v_05/12851325
TA A12.3.05.007
FMA 70840

Anatomical terminology

The pharyngeal veins begin in the pharyngeal plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.

They occasionally open into the facial, lingual, or superior thyroid vein.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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