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  2. External jugular vein - Wikipedia

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    This vein receives the occipital vein occasionally, the posterior external jugular, and, near its termination, the transverse cervical, transverse scapular, and anterior jugular veins; in the substance of the parotid, a large branch of communication from the internal jugular joins it. The external jugular vein drains into the subclavian vein ...

  3. Jugular vein - Wikipedia

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    The internal jugular veins join with the subclavian veins more medially to form the brachiocephalic veins. Finally, the left and right brachiocephalic veins join to form the superior vena cava, which delivers deoxygenated blood to the right atrium of the heart. [2] The jugular vein has tributaries consisting of petrosal sinus, facial, lingual ...

  4. Posterior external jugular vein - Wikipedia

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    The posterior external jugular vein begins in the occipital region and returns the blood from the skin and superficial muscles in the upper and back part of the neck, lying between the splenius and trapezius. It runs down the back part of the neck, and opens into the external jugular vein just below the middle of its course.

  5. Posterior triangle of the neck - Wikipedia

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    The external jugular vein's superficial location within the posterior triangle also makes it vulnerable to injury. ... 24:01-02 at Human Anatomy Online, ...

  6. Superficial cervical lymph nodes - Wikipedia

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    The superficial cervical lymph nodes are lymph nodes that lie near the surface of the neck.. Some sources state simply that they lie along the external jugular vein, [1] while other sources state that they are only adjacent to the external jugular vein in the posterior triangle, and they are adjacent to the anterior jugular vein in the anterior triangle.

  7. Occipital triangle - Wikipedia

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    The roof of this triangle is formed by the cutaneous nerves of cervical plexus and the external jugular vein and platysma muscle. A chain of lymph glands is also found running along the posterior border of the Sternocleidomastoideus, from the mastoid process to the root of the neck.

  8. Retromandibular vein - Wikipedia

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    an anterior branch which passes anterior-ward to unite with the (anterior) facial vein forming the common facial vein (which then empties into the internal jugular vein). [5] a posterior branch which penetrates the investing layer of the deep cervical fascia before [1] uniting with the posterior auricular vein forming the external jugular vein ...

  9. Pterygoid plexus - Wikipedia

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    The pterygoid plexus of veins becomes the maxillary vein. The maxillary vein and the superficial temporal vein later join to become the retromandibular vein. The posterior branch of the retromandibular vein and posterior auricular vein then form the external jugular vein, which empties into the subclavian vein. [citation needed]