Occipital emissary vein

Occipital emissary vein
Details
Drains to	occipital vein
Identifiers
Latin	vena emissaria occipitalis
TA98	A12.3.05.305
TA2	4876
FMA	50794
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The occipital emissary vein is a small emissary vein which passes through the condylar canal.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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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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