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Definition of External jugular vein
1. Noun. Formed by the junction of the posterior auricular and the retromandibular veins; empties into the subclavian vein.
Medical Definition of External jugular vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of External Jugular Vein
Literary usage of External jugular vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The external jugular vein varies in size, bearing an inverse proportion to that
... Venesection used formerly to be performed on the external jugular vein, ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The external jugular vein receives the greater part of the blood from the ...
The external jugular vein varies in size, bearing an inverse proportion to ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"The external jugular vein did not give any trouble, and was not done anything to.
Mrs. Henley appears never to have quite ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Venesection used formerly to be performed on the external jugular vein, ...
The posterior external jugular vein (r. jugularis posterior) begins in the ..."
5. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"When they are double they have this course; the anterior and external jugular
vein may be said to begin from the anterior facial vein ; it then receives the ..."
6. The Dublin dissector or Manual of anatomy by Robert Harrison (1854)
"The external jugular vein, is sometimes doable, either because the branches which
form it, do not unite until they reach Ihe lower part of the neck ..."
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