Ophthalmic veins

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Vein: Ophthalmic veins
Veins of orbit.
Gray's	subject #171 659
Drains to	cavernous sinus

Ophthalmic veins are veins which drain the eye.

More specifically, they can refer to:

• Superior ophthalmic vein
• Inferior ophthalmic vein

v • d • e Veins (emissary, jugular and others) and sinuses of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary) to external jugular retromandibular: maxillary • superficial temporal (anterior auricular) posterior auricular transverse cervical - suprascapular - anterior jugular (jugular venous arch) to internal jugular Diploic/brain cerebral: superior • middle • inferior • great • internal (basal, superior thalamostriate) cerebellar: superior • inferior To COS: superior sagittal • straight (inferior sagittal) • occipital To CS: sphenoparietal • intercavernous superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal) • inferior ophthalmic • vorticose veins To IJV: sigmoid: transverse (petrosquamous) • superior petrosal inferior petrosal (basilar plexus, internal auditory veins) - condylar Other common facial • facial (frontal, supraorbital, angular, superior labial, inferior labial, deep facial) • pterygoid plexus lingual (dorsal lingual, deep lingual, sublingual) • pharyngeal • thyroid (superior/superior laryngeal, middle) to vertebral vein occipital (occipital)  • suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical to brachiocephalic inferior thyroid (inferior laryngeal) - thymic