Pharyngeal plexus (venous)

Pharyngeal plexus (venous)
Details
Identifiers
Latin	plexus pharyngeus
Anatomical terminology

The pharyngeal plexus (venous) is a network of veins beginning in the pharyngeal (nerve) plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.

See also

• Pterygoid venous plexus

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• http://anatomy.uams.edu/AnatomyHTML/veins_head&neck.html