Sublingual vein

Sublingual vein
Veins of the tongue. The hypoglossal nerve has been displaced downward in this preparation.
Details
Drains to	lingual vein
Artery	sublingual artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena sublingualis
TA98	A12.3.05.012
TA2	4810
FMA	50836
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The sublingual vein is a vein which drains the tongue.

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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

lingual
- dorsal lingual
- deep lingual
- sublingual
pharyngeal
superior thyroid
- superior laryngeal
middle thyroid

Brachiocephalic

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

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