Pharyngeal plexus (venous)
- Pharyngeal plexus (venous)
Infobox Vein
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Latin = plexus pharyngeus
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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.
ee also
* pterygoid venous plexus
External links
* http://anatomy.uams.edu/AnatomyHTML/veins_head&neck.html
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