SUPERFICIAL VEINS OF HEAD AND NECK 



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neck; and the deep, which return the blood from the deeper structures. All 

 the veins, whether superficial or deep, terminate in the internal jugular or sub- 

 clavian, or open directly into the innominate veins at the root of the neck. 

 Through the latter all the blood from the head and neck ultimately passes on its 

 way to the heart. 



THE SUPERFICIAL VEINS OF THE HEAD AND NECK 



The venous blood from the anterior part of the scalp and integument of the 

 face is returned, through the anterior and posterior facial veins, to the common 

 facial, a tributary of the internal jugular vein. From the posterior part of the 

 scalp and from the integument of the neck venous blood is returned, through the 

 external jugular and its tributaries, to the subclavian vein. 



A. The Anterior Facial Vein 



The anterior facial vein [v. facialis anterior] (fig. 510) begins a little below the 

 medial end of the eyebrow where it is formed by the union of the frontal and 



Fig. 510. — The Superficial Veins of the Face and Scalp. (After Quain.) 



Superficial tem- 

 poral vein 



Internal maxil- 

 lary vein 



Posterior auricu- 

 lar vein 



Posterior facial 

 vein 



Posterior exter- 

 nal jugxxlar vein 



External jugular 

 vein 



transverse cervical 

 vein 



Nasal branch of 

 angular vein 



Anterior facial 

 vein in neck 



Common facial 

 vein 



Communicating 

 branch with an- 

 terior jugular 



Anterior jugular 

 vein 



Transverse scapular vein 



supraorbital veins. It descends near the medial angle of the orbit, and then by the 

 side of the nose to the cheek, which it crosses obliquely, to the anterior edge of the 

 masseter muscle. Thence it passes through the digastric triangle to the upper 

 border of the hyoid bone, where it terminates in the common facial vein. In this 

 course it is reinforced by numerous collateral veins, and gradually increases in 

 size. It has, moreover, numerous communications with the deep veins. The 

 portion of this vein above the lower margin of the orbit is called the angular [v. 



