Deep facial vein

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Vein: Deep facial vein
Latin	vena profunda faciei
Gray's	subject #167 645
Drains to	facial vein
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12851476

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

The anterior facial vein receives a branch of considerable size, the deep facial vein, from the pterygoid venous plexus.

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v • d • e

Veins (emissary, jugular and others) and sinuses of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary)

to external jugular

retromandibular: maxillary • superficial temporal (anterior auricular)

posterior auricular

transverse cervical - suprascapular - anterior jugular (jugular venous arch)

to internal jugular

Diploic/brain

cerebral: superior • middle • inferior • great • internal (basal, superior thalamostriate)

cerebellar: superior • inferior

To COS: superior sagittal • straight (inferior sagittal) • occipital

To CS: sphenoparietal • intercavernous
superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal) • inferior ophthalmic • vorticose veins