jugular vein
Sign in to saveAlso known as vena que transporta y regresa sangre desoxigenada a la cabeza y al corazón
veins that bring deoxygenated blood from the head back to the heart
Key facts
- System
- Circulatory system
- Drains from
- Head
- Drains to
- Brachiocephalic vein (internal), subclavian vein (external)
- Artery
- Common carotid artery (internal)
- Latin
- Venae iugulares
- Mesh
- D007601
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
25,648 papers- Anatomical Variations of the External Jugular Vein: A Pictorial and Critical Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023
- Duplication of the external jugular vein: a language barrier of database search in classic anatomical studies.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2021
- Internal jugular vein stenosis associated with elongated styloid process: five case reports and literature review.BMC neurology · 2019
- Internal Jugular Vein Fenestration and Duplication.The Journal of craniofacial surgery · 2025
- Jugular vein aneurysm.Vascular · 2008
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Jugular vein
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12738
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Encyclopedic overview
The jugular veins (Latin: Venae iugulares) are veins that take blood from the head back to the heart via the superior vena cava. The internal jugular vein descends next to the internal carotid artery and continues posteriorly to the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
Structure and function
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “jugular vein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.