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facial vein

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001653

The anterior facial vein (facial vein) commences at the side of the root of the nose, and is a direct continuation of the angular vein where it also receives a small nasal branch. It lies behind the facial artery and follows a less tortuous course. It receives blood from the external palatine vein before it either joins the anterior branch of the retromandibular vein to form the common facial vein, or drains directly into the internal jugular vein. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_vein ]

Synonyms: vein of face, face vein

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000001

Vein which collects blood from muscles of the head and drains into the external jugular vein.[AAO]

UBPROP 0000012

MA and NCITA also has 'anterior facial vein'

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gray557.png

has related synonym

vena facialis anterior, anterior facial vein

id

UBERON:0001653

prefLabel

Facial vein

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606