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
TA	A12.3.05.012
FMA	50836
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The sublingual vein is a vein which drains the tongue.

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular

Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)

Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate

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

Direct

Vertebral	occipital occipital emissary suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical

Direct	inferior thyroid inferior laryngeal thymic

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