Angular vein
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| Vein: Angular vein | ||
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| Veins of the head and neck. (Angular visible at center right.) | ||
| Latin | v. angularis | |
| Gray's | subject #167 645 | |
The angular vein formed by the junction of the frontal and supraorbital veins, runs obliquely downward, on the side of the root of the nose, to the level of the lower margin of the orbit, where it becomes the anterior facial vein.
It receives the veins of the ala nasi, and communicates with the superior ophthalmic vein through the nasofrontal vein, thus establishing an important anastomosis between the anterior facial vein and the cavernous sinus.
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