Anterior auricular veins

Anterior auricular veins
Veins of the head and neck (anterior auricular veins not labeled, but region is visible)
Lateral head anatomy detail
Details
Drains to	Superficial temporal vein
Artery	Anterior auricular branches of superficial temporal artery^[1]
Identifiers
Latin	venae auriculares anteriores
TA98	A12.3.05.040
TA2	4840
FMA	70853
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The anterior auricular veins are veins which drain the anterior aspect of the external ear.^[2] The veins drains to the superficial temporal vein.^[3]

See also

Posterior auricular vein

References

^ Susan Standring (7 August 2015). Gray's Anatomy E-Book: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-7020-6851-5.
^ Henry Gray (1867). Anatomy, descriptive and surgical. Henry C. Lea. pp. 459.
^ Jean Cruveilhier (1844). The Anatomy of the Human Body. Harper & Brothers. pp. 590.

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Veins of the head and neck

External jugular

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular
Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Internal jugular

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)
Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate choroid septal

To COS	superior sagittal straight inferior sagittal occipital
To CS	sphenoparietal intercavernous superior ophthalmic ethmoidal central retinal nasofrontal vorticose veins inferior ophthalmic
To IJV	sigmoid: transverse petrosquamous superior petrosal inferior petrosal basilar plexus internal auditory veins condylar

Facial/common facial

Direct

Brachiocephalic

Vertebral	occipital occipital emissary suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical
Direct	inferior thyroid inferior laryngeal thymic

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