Pharyngeal plexus (venous)

Pharyngeal plexus (venous)
Details
Identifiers
Latin	plexus pharyngeus
TA98	A12.3.05.006
TA2	4805
FMA	50822
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The pharyngeal plexus (venous) is a network of veins beginning in the pharyngeal (nerve) plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

http://anatomy.uams.edu/AnatomyHTML/veins_head&neck.html

Veins of the head and neck

External jugular

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular
Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Internal jugular

Diploic/brain

Cerebral

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)
Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate choroid septal

Cerebellar

Sinuses

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