Anterior auricular veins

Anterior auricular veins
Veins of the head and neck (anterior auricular veins not labeled, but region is visible)
Lateral head anatomy detail
Details
Drains to	Superficial temporal vein
Artery	Anterior auricular branches of superficial temporal artery^[1]
Identifiers
Latin	Venae auriculares anteriores
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12849533
TA	A12.3.05.040
FMA	70853
*Anatomical terminology*

The anterior auricular veins are veins which drain the anterior aspect of the external ear.^[2] The veins drains to the superficial temporal vein.^[3]

References

↑ Susan Standring (7 August 2015). Gray's Anatomy E-Book: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-7020-6851-5.
↑ Henry Gray (1867). Anatomy, descriptive and surgical. Henry C. Lea. p. 459.
↑ Jean Cruveilhier (1844). The Anatomy of the Human Body. Harper & Brothers. p. 590.

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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