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Definition of Lingual vein
1. Noun. A vein that receives blood from the tongue and the floor of the mouth and empties into the internal jugular or the facial vein.
Group relationships: Mouth
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel
Medical Definition of Lingual vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingual Vein
Literary usage of Lingual vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"Displace the lingual vein and the hypoglossal nerve upwards ; cut through the
fibres of the hyoglossus, immediately above and parallel with the greater ..."
2. A Manual of Operative Surgery by Lewis Atterbury Stimson, John Rogers (1900)
"It is occasionally accompanied by a small vein, but the lingual vein is separated
from it by the thickness of the hyoglossus muscle. ..."
3. Manual of Operative Surgery by Joseph Decatur Bryant (1886)
"asido the lingual vein if seen, and pick up the fibers of the ... beneath them
will be found the vessel, sometimes accompanied by the lingual vein (Fig. ..."
4. Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck by John Blair Deaver (1904)
"The lingual vein arises near the tip of the tongue, where it is also known as the
... When the lingual vein empties into the internal jugular vein, ..."
5. Diseases of the Tongue by Henry Trentham Butlin, Walter George Spencer (1900)
"The lingual vein is formed by the sublingual, which runs across the digastric
triangle just below the hypoglossal nerve. Verne comites come from the tongue ..."
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