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A deep vein is a vein that is deep in the body. This contrasts with superficial veins that are close to the body's surface. Deep veins are almost always...

of veins in the human body: Veins of the heart Coronary sinus Great cardiac vein Oblique vein of left atrium Middle cardiac vein Small cardiac vein Pulmonary...

Veins (/veɪn/) are blood vessels in the circulatory system of humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated...

The deep femoral vein, deep vein of the thigh or profunda femoris vein is a large deep vein in the thigh. It collects blood from the inner thigh, passing...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a type of venous thrombosis involving the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein, most commonly in the legs or pelvis....

longest vein in the body, running along the length of the lower limb, returning blood from the foot, leg and thigh to the deep femoral vein at the femoral triangle...

Superficial veins are veins that are close to the surface of the body, as opposed to deep veins, which are far from the surface. Superficial veins are not...

In the human body, the femoral vein is the vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the femoral sheath. It is a deep vein that begins at the adductor...

veins, also known as varicoses, are a medical condition in which superficial veins become enlarged and twisted. These veins typically develop in the legs...

gluteal veins Obturator veins Lateral sacral veins Vesical veins Middle rectal veins Internal pudendal vein Deep veins of clitoris Deep veins of penis Inferior...

veins into deeper veins. In a French population, the percent of people with SVTs that also suffered from PEs was 4.7%. In the same population, deep vein...

the deep dorsal vein of the penis, which is flanked by a pair of cavernosal veins of the penis, while a deeper and wider groove between them on the surface...

The external jugular vein receives the greater part of the blood from the exterior of the cranium and the deep parts of the face, being formed by the...

The Batson venous plexus (Batson veins) is a network of valveless veins in the human body that connect the deep pelvic veins and thoracic veins (draining...

The perforating veins connect the deep and the superficial system, which consists of the small and great saphenous veins (the site of varicose veins)...

origin of pulmonary emboli are the femoral veins. The deep veins of the calf are the most common sites of actual thrombi.[citation needed] In paradoxical...

thoracic veins, bronchial veins, and even gonadal veins. The vein is so named because it has no symmetrically equivalent vein on the left side of the body. It...

On the left, they drain into the renal vein which in turn drains into the inferior vena cava. By contrast, all the lumbar veins and hepatic veins usually...

which drains the lymph to the left subclavian vein (to the venous angle in the confluence of the subclavian and deep jugular veins). The mediastinal lymph...

cannot pump deoxygenated blood back to the heart. Varicose veins are saccular and distended veins which can expand considerably and may cause painful venous...