Left marginal vein

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Vein: Left marginal vein

Base and diaphragmatic surface of heart. (Left marginal vein labeled at center left.)
Latin	Vena marginalis sinistra
Gray's	p.642
Drains from	Left ventricle
Drains to	Great cardiac vein
Artery	Left marginal artery

The great cardiac vein receives tributaries from the left atrium and from both ventricles: one, the left marginal vein, is of considerable size, and ascends along the left margin of the heart.

References

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

Veins of the thorax and vertebral column (TA A12.3.01–04, 07, GA 7.664)

Thorax

Coronary

Coronary sinus	Great cardiac (Left marginal) Posterior of the left ventricle Oblique of the left atrium (Ligament of the left vena cava) Middle cardiac

Small cardiac vein	Anterior cardiac (Right marginal)

Smallest cardiac veins	Right atrial veins Right ventricular veins

Pulmonary

right inferior pulmonary vein
right superior pulmonary vein
left inferior pulmonary vein
left superior pulmonary vein

SVC

Brachiocephalic	internal thoracic anterior intercostal superior epigastric left superior intercostal supreme vertebral subclavian axillary: lateral thoracic thoracoepigastric dorsal scapular external jugular pericardiacophrenic internal jugular

Azygos	right superior intercostal bronchial intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos superior phrenic

Vertebral column

vertebral venous plexuses
- external
- internal
spinal
- posterior
- anterior
basivertebral
intervertebral

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