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Lymph: Jugular trunk

Terminal collecting trunks of right side. a. Jugular trunk. b. Subclavian trunk. c. Bronchomediastinal trunk. d. Right lymphatic trunk. e. Gland of internal mammary chain. f. Gland of deep cervical chain.
Latin	truncus jugularis
Gray's	subject #177 698
Source	superior deep cervical lymph nodes, inferior deep cervical lymph nodes
Dorlands/Elsevier	t_20/12826040

The efferents of the superior deep cervical glands pass partly to the inferior deep cervical glands and partly to a trunk which unites with the efferent vessel of the inferior deep cervical glands and forms the jugular trunk.

On the right side, this trunk ends in the junction of the internal jugular and subclavian veins.

On the left side it joins the thoracic duct.

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Lymphatics of head and neck

Head

Posterior	Occipital - Mastoid/retroauricular Parotid: Superficial - Deep (Preauricular, Infra-auricular, Intraglandular)
Anterior	Facial (Buccinator, Nasolabial) - Mandibular Submandibular - Submental