VEINS FOR WHICH A&P STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE

©David B. Fankhauser, Ph.D.,
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
University of Cincinnati Clermont College,
Batavia OH 45103

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Note that most of the veins of the body are named in parallel fashion to the arteries supplying the capillary beds they drain. It is assumed that you have learned the arteries, and therefore you already know the analogous veins. (See handout on arteries.)

The following veins, however, do not have strictly analogous arteries, or follow pathways which differ in some significant way from those of the arteries. The numbers are the page numbers in Martini's Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology, 5th Ed, (2001).
 

Head:  p. 736-737 superior sagittal sinus inferior sagittal sinus straight sinus transverse sinus confluence of the sinuses internal jugulars external jugulars (to subclavians) vertebrals

Chest:  p. 738 R & L subclavian R & L brachiocephalic axillary brachial azygos accessory azygos hemiazygos

Arm: p. 738 cephalic basilic median cubital (connects) Abdomen: p. 738, 741 hepatic portal R & L hepatic R gonadal L gonadal (note carefully) hepatic portal Leg:  p. 740 great saphenous small saphenous