Lingual veins

Lingual veins
Lingual veins
	Veins of the tongue. (Lingual vein labeled at left.)
Details
Drains from	Tongue
Drains to	Internal jugular vein
Artery	Lingual artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena lingualis
TA98	A12.3.05.009
TA2	4807
FMA	14326
	Anatomical terminology

The lingual veins are multiple veins of the tongue with two distinct courses: one group drains into the lingual artery; another group drains either into the lingual artery, (common) facial vein, or internal jugular vein.^[1]

^ Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. pp. 592–593. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)