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Frontal vein
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| Vein: Frontal vein | ||
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| Veins of the head and neck. (Frontal vein labeled at upper right.) | ||
| Latin | venae frontales | |
| Gray's | subject #167 644 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | v_05/12850376 | |
The frontal vein begins on the forehead in a venous plexus which communicates with the frontal branches of the superficial temporal vein.
The veins converge to form a single trunk, which runs downward near the middle line of the forehead parallel with the vein of the opposite side.
The two veins are joined, at the root of the nose, by a transverse branch, called the nasal arch, which receives some small veins from the dorsum of the nose.
At the root of the nose the veins diverge, and, each at the medial angle of the orbit, joins the supraorbital vein, to form the angular vein.
Occasionally the frontal veins join to form a single trunk, which bifurcates at the root of the nose into the two angular veins.
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| Veins of head and neck |
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| exterior of the head and face: frontal - supraorbital - angular - facial - common facial (superior labial, inferior labial) - deep facial - superficial temporal - retromandibular - pterygoid - internal maxillary - posterior auricular - occipital
veins of the neck: jugular vein (external, anterior, internal, arch) - inferior petrosal sinus - lingual - pharyngeal - superior thyroid - middle thyroid - vertebral - deep cervical diploic/veins of the brain: cerebral - superior cerebral - middle cerebral - inferior cerebral - basal - internal cerebral - great cerebral - superior cerebellar - inferior cerebellar sinuses of the dura mater: superior sagittal - inferior sagittal - straight - transverse - sigmoid - petrosquamous - occipital - confluence - cavernous - sphenoparietal ophthalmic: vorticose veins - superior ophthalmic - nasofrontal - inferior ophthalmic - intercavernous sinuses - superior petrosal sinus - basilar - emissary |
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