Anterior cardiac veins

Vein: Anterior cardiac veins
Sternocostal surface of heart.(Anterior cardiac veins not labeled, but visible at left.)
ARTERIES: RCA = right coronary AB = atrial branches SANB = sinuatrial nodal RMA = right marginal LCA = left coronary CB = circumflex branch LAD/AIB = anterior interventricular LMA = left marginal PIA/PDA = posterior descending AVN = atrioventricular nodal VEINS: SCV = small cardiac ACV = anterior cardiac AIV/GCV = great cardiac MCV = middle cardiac CS = coronary sinus
Latin	venae cardiacae anteriores, venae ventriculi dextri anteriores
Gray's	subject #166 643
Drains to	right atrium
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12852185

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

The anterior cardiac veins (or anterior veins of right ventricle), comprising three or four small vessels which collect blood from the front of the right ventricle and open into the right atrium; the right marginal vein frequently opens into the right atrium, and is therefore sometimes regarded as belonging to this group

Unlike most cardiac veins, it does not end in the coronary sinus.

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