Superior labial vein

Superior labial vein
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Vein: Superior labial vein

Veins of the head and neck. (Superior labial vein visible at center right.)
Latin	vena labialis superior
Gray's	subject #167 645
Drains from	upper lip
Drains to	facial vein
Artery	superior labial
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12850782

The superior labial vein is the vein receiving blood from the upper lip.

External links

Superior+labial+vein at eMedicine Dictionary

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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