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A list of veins in the human body:

Veins in the human body

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

Facial/ common facial

Direct

Brachiocephalic

Vertebral	occipital occipital emissary suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical
Direct	inferior thyroid inferior laryngeal thymic

Veins of the thorax and vertebral column

Thorax

Heart

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)

Lungs

Pulmonary veins

superior
vena cava

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

Veins of the abdomen and pelvis

To azygos system

ascending lumbar
- subcostal

IVC
( Systemic)

To IVC or left renal vein

Common iliac

Unpaired

median sacral vein

Internal iliac

posterior:	iliolumbar superior gluteal lateral sacral
anterior:	inferior gluteal obturator uterine ♀ uterine plexus ♀ vesical vesical plexus prostatic plexus ♂ deep of penis ♂/ clitoris ♀ posterior scrotal ♂/ labial ♀ vaginal plexus/vein ♀ middle rectal internal pudendal inferior rectal bulb of penis ♂/ vestibule ♀ rectal plexus

External iliac

Portal vein
( Portal)

Splenic	short gastric left gastroepiploic pancreatic inferior mesenteric superior rectal left colic
Superior mesenteric	right gastroepiploic pancreaticoduodenal jejunal ileal middle colic right colic ileocolic appendicular
Direct	cystic left gastric/ esophageal right gastric paraumbilical

Veins of the human arm

General

Superficial

arm:	Cephalic Accessory cephalic Median cubital Basilic Median antebrachial
hand/forearm:	Dorsal network Intercapitular Dorsal metacarpal Superficial palmar arch Palmar digital

Deep

arm:	Radial Ulnar Brachial
hand/forearm:	Deep palmar arch Palmar metacarpal

v t e Veins of the human leg
thigh	femoral deep femoral vein popliteal
deep leg	fibular anterior tibial posterior tibial
superficial leg	small saphenous great saphenous external pudendal superficial of penis/ clitoris
foot	dorsal arch dorsal metatarsal dorsal digital plantar arch plantar metatarsal common digital plantar digital

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