Pharyngeal plexus (venous)

The pharyngeal plexus (venous) is a network of veins beginning in the pharyngeal 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.

Pharyngeal plexus (venous)
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Identifiers
Latinplexus pharyngeus
TAA12.3.05.006
FMA50822
Anatomical terminology

See also

  • Pterygoid venous plexus

References

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


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