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facial vein

A continuation of the angular vein at the medial angle of the eye. It passes inferiorly & laterally joining a large communicating branch of the retromandibular vein below the inferior border of the mandible before emptying into the internal jugular vein.

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angular vein deep facial vein internal jugular vein retromandibular vein

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References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

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