Anterior auricular veins

Vein: Anterior auricular veins

Veins of the head and neck. (Anterior auricular veins not labeled, but region is visible.)
Latin	venae auriculares anteriores
Drains to	superficial temporal vein
Artery	anterior auricular branches of superficial temporal artery
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12849533

The anterior auricular veins are veins which drain the anterior aspect of the external ear.

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Veins (emissary, jugular and others) and sinuses of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary)

Diploic/brain	cerebral: superior • middle • inferior • great • internal (basal, superior thalamostriate) cerebellar: superior • inferior To COS: superior sagittal • straight (inferior sagittal) • occipital To CS: sphenoparietal • intercavernous superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal) • inferior ophthalmic • vorticose veins To IJV: sigmoid: transverse (petrosquamous) • superior petrosal inferior petrosal (basilar plexus, internal auditory veins) - condylar

Other	common facial • facial (frontal, supraorbital, angular, superior labial, inferior labial, deep facial) • pterygoid plexus lingual (dorsal lingual, deep lingual, sublingual) • pharyngeal • thyroid (superior/superior laryngeal, middle)