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A dilatation in the upper part of the internal jugular vein near it's origin and lies in the jugular fossa in the base of the skull.....
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What vein is formed by the subclavian vein with the internal jugular vein?
brachiocephalic vein
What is the vein that drains the brain?
internal jugular!
Through what structure does the internal jugular vein exit the skull?
The internal jugular vein is formed from the sigmoid sinus (after receiving the lesser petrosal sinus) just after passing through the jugular foramen to become the internal jugular vein.
How do the relative size of the external and internal jugular veins differ in humans and the cat?
In humans there is one external and one internal jugular vein. The internal jugular vein is much larger (about twice the diameter) of the external jugular. In the cat there are a pair of each vein but the external jugular vein is about twce as large as the internal. (Opposite of humans.)
Venous drainage of head and neck?
Facial,occipital,superficial temporal,retromandibular,posterior auricular,internal jugular,external jugular veins
Where does the internal jugular vein get blood from?
The Brain
What structures are found within the carotid sheath?
The internal jugular vein The carotid arteries (common and internal) The vagus nerve
A vein that returns blood from the head is the?
There are two sets of veins: the external and internal jugular veins that bring deoxygenated blood from the head back to the heart via the superior vena cava. There is also another, minor, jugular vein, the anterior jugular vein, draining the submaxillary region.
Which mammalian species has the largest internal jugular vein?
The Pig
Which vein is not an antecubital vein A the Femoral vein B the Internal Jugular Vein C the Inguinal vein?
The Superficial Vein is not an antecubital vein.
What do you call the big vein on the side of your neck that is connected to your heart?
AnswerIt's called the carotid vein. Veins carry blood towards the heart and arteries carry it away. The vein that carries deoxygenated blood to the heart from the upper body is called the superior vena cava and the vein that carries blood from the head to that vein through the neck is the jugular vein.
Blood flows from the superior vena cava into the?
Blood goes from the vena cava into the right atrium of the heart
