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Definition of Common facial vein
1. Noun. Vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein.
Medical Definition of Common facial vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Facial Vein
Literary usage of Common facial vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"In many cases, however, it ends in the suboccipital plexus, wlr.eh is drained by
the vertebral and deep cervical veins (see p. 875). The common facial vein ..."
2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"The trunk formed by the union of the anterior and posterior facial veins is the
common facial vein. Trace the common facial vein downwards and posteriorly ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"It divides into two branches, an anterior, which passes forward and unites with
the anterior facial vein to form the common facial vein and a posterior, ..."
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