The retromandibular and posterior auricular veins join at the angle of the mandible to form the external jugular vein, which runs inferiorly in the subcutaneous tissue of the anterolateral neck ...

A recent paper in BMJ Case Reports has described a particularly rare discovery: a person with two internal jugular veins ... with multiple branches draining into both veins, meant that the ...

The jugular veins drain blood from the head. There are internal and external branches. The internal jugular vein lies deep in the root of the neck, medial to the sternomastoid muscle (Fig 1). It is ...

Examination revealed pustular exudates on the right tonsil and thrombophlebitis of the right external jugular vein (Panel A, arrows). Computed tomographic imaging of the chest revealed bilateral ...

Thus, the vein was probably enlarged because David was in an adrenaline-fueled situation, before facing the giant Goliath. The external jugular vein also appears in another sculpture by Michelangelo: ...