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Definition of Facial vein

1. Noun. Any of several veins draining the face.

Medical Definition of Facial vein

1. A continuation of the angular vein at the medial angle of the eye. It passes diagonally downward and outward, joining with the retromandibular vein below the border of the lower jaw before emptying into the internal jugular vein. Synonym: anterior facial vein, vena facialis anterior, vena facialis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facial Vein

Literary usage of Facial 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 facial vein commences at the side of the root of the nose, being a direct continuation of the ... The facial vein receives, near the angle of the mouth, ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The facial vein commences at the side of the root of the nose, being a direcr continuation of the ... The facial vein receives, near the angle of the mouth, ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"This plexus communicates freely with the anterior facial vein; it also communicates with the cavernous sinus, by branches through the foramen ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"He thinks that as much blood as can flows off through the narrow opening into the sinus, and that the rest goes into the anterior facial vein through the ..."

5. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The anterior facial vein collects the blood from the face, the tongue, ... Next the anterior facial vein receives a large communicating branch (V. ..."

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