18.8: Veins of the Head and Neck
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Veins of the Head and Neck
Above: Veins of the head and neck.
Blood from the brain is drained through the superior sagittal sinus and inferior sagittal sinus, through the sigmoid sinus and to the internal jugular veins (right and left) and the vertebral veins (right and left) passing through the transverse foramina of the cervical vertebrae. Deoxygenated blood from superficial structures of the head drains into the external jugular veins (right and left) by way of the facial veins, temporal veins, and occipital veins (right and left)
Above: Veins of the head and neck.
Above: Veins of the cranial cavity.
Attributions
- "Anatomy and Physiology" by J. Gordon Betts et al., OpenStax is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- "Gray's Anatomy plates" by Henry Vandyke Carte is in the Public Domain