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- receives blood from
- superior bulb at upper end
- inferior bulb at lower end
- directly above this is bicuspid valve
Course
- begins at jugular foramen (continuation of sigmoid sinus)
- descends through neck in carotid sheath
- unites with subclavian vein behind medial end of clavicle
- forms brachiocephalic vein
Relations
- Anterolaterally
- skin
- superficial fascia
- platysma
- transverse cutaneous nerve
- investing layer of deep cervical fascia
- sternocleidomastoid
- parotid gland
- lower part (between vein and sternocleidomastoid) covered by
- sternothyroid
- sternohyoid
- omohyoid
- crossed by
- ansa cervicalis
- stylohyoid
- posterior belly of digastric
- posterior auricular artery
- occipital artery
- spinal part of accessory nerve
- styloid process and stylopharyngeus separate vein from parotid gland
- deep cervical nodes run along gland
- Posteriorly
- transverse process of cervical vertebrae
- levator scapulae
- scalenus medius
- scalenus anterior
- cervical plexus
- phrenic nerve
- thyrocervical trunk
- vertebral vein
- first part of subclavian artery
- thoracic duct (on left side)
- Medially
- above
- internal carotid artery
- IXth
- Xth
- XIth
- XIIth cranial nerves
- below
- common carotid artery
- vagus nerve
Tributaries
- inferior petrosal sinus
- facial vein
- pharyngeal
- lingual veins
- superior thyroid vein
- middle thyroid vein
- occipital vein (occasionally)
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