Pharyngeal veins
| Pharyngeal veins | |
|---|---|
 Veins of the head and neck. (Pharyngeal visible at left.) | |
 Muscles of the pharynx, viewed from behind, together with the associated vessels and nerves. | |
| Details | |
| Drains from | pharynx |
| Drains to | internal jugular |
| Artery | pharyngeal branches of inferior thyroid artery |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | venae pharyngeae |
| TA98 | A12.3.05.007 |
| TA2 | 4806 |
| FMA | 70840 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
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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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 649 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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