Pharyngeal veins

Pharyngeal veins

Infobox Vein
Name = Pharyngeal veins
Latin = venae pharyngeae
GraySubject = 168
GrayPage = 649



Caption = Veins of the head and neck. (Pharyngeal visible at left.)



Caption2 = Muscles of the pharynx, viewed from behind, together with the associated vessels and nerves.
DrainsFrom = pharynx
Source =
DrainsTo = internal jugular
Artery = pharyngeal branches of inferior thyroid artery
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DorlandsPre = v_05
DorlandsSuf = 12851325
The pharyngeal veins begin in the pharyngeal plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.

They occasionally open into the facial, lingual, or superior thyroid vein.

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