Posterior spinal veins

Posterior spinal veins
1: Posterior spinal vein 2: Anterior spinal vein 3: Posterolateral spinal vein 4: Radicular (or segmental medullary) vein 5: Posterior spinal arteries 6: Anterior spinal artery 7: Radicular (or segmental medullary) artery
Details
Artery	Posterior spinal artery
Identifiers
Latin	Venae spinales posteriores
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12851740
TA	A12.3.07.025
FMA	70893
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

Posterior spinal veins are small veins which receive blood from the dorsal spinal cord.

References

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

External links

http://sci.rutgers.edu/index.php?page=viewarticle&afile=10_January_2002@SCIschemia.html

Veins of the thorax and vertebral column

Thorax

Coronary

Coronary sinus	Great cardiac (Left marginal) Posterior of the left ventricle Oblique of the left atrium (Ligament of the left vena cava) Middle cardiac

Small cardiac vein	Anterior cardiac (Right marginal)

Smallest cardiac veins	Right atrial veins Right ventricular veins

Pulmonary

superior
vena cava

Brachiocephalic	internal thoracic anterior intercostal superior epigastric left superior intercostal supreme vertebral subclavian axillary: lateral thoracic thoracoepigastric dorsal scapular external jugular pericardiacophrenic internal jugular

Azygos	right superior intercostal bronchial intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos superior phrenic

Vertebral column

vertebral venous plexuses
- external
- internal
spinal
- posterior
- anterior
basivertebral
intervertebral

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