Sublingual vein

Vein: Sublingual vein
Veins of the tongue. The hypoglossal nerve has been displaced downward in this preparation.
Latin	vena sublingualis
Drains to	lingual vein
Artery	sublingual artery

The sublingual vein is a vein which drains the tongue.

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v • d • e Veins (emissary, jugular and others) and sinuses of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary) to external jugular retromandibular: maxillary · superficial temporal (anterior auricular) posterior auricular transverse cervical - suprascapular - anterior jugular (jugular venous arch) to internal jugular Diploic/brain cerebral: superior · middle · inferior · great · internal (basal, superior thalamostriate) cerebellar: superior · inferior To COS: superior sagittal · straight (inferior sagittal) · occipital To CS: sphenoparietal · intercavernous superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal) · inferior ophthalmic · vorticose veins To IJV: sigmoid: transverse (petrosquamous) · superior petrosal inferior petrosal (basilar plexus, internal auditory veins) · condylar Other common facial · facial (frontal, supraorbital, angular, superior labial, inferior labial, deep facial) · pterygoid plexus lingual (dorsal lingual, deep lingual, sublingual) · pharyngeal · thyroid (superior/superior laryngeal, middle) to vertebral vein occipital (occipital) · suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical to brachiocephalic inferior thyroid (inferior laryngeal) - thymic

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