Pharyngeal plexus (venous)

Pharyngeal plexus (venous)
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Identifiers
Latin plexus pharyngeus
TA A12.3.05.006
FMA 50822

Anatomical terminology

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.

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References

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


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