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 frompharynx
Drains tointernal jugular vein
Arterypharyngeal branches of inferior thyroid artery
Identifiers
Latinvenae pharyngeae
TA98A12.3.05.007
TA24806
FMA70840
Anatomical terminology

The pharyngeal veins commence in the pharyngeal plexus superficial to the pharynx. The pharyngeal veins receive as tributaries meningeal vein, and the vein of the pterygoid canal. The pharyngeal veins typically empty into the internal jugular vein (but may occasionally instead empty into the facial vein, lingual vein, or superior thyroid vein).[1]

References

  1. ^ Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. p. 593. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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