Inferior cerebral veins

Inferior cerebral veins
Outer surface of cerebral hemisphere, showing areas supplied by cerebral arteries (inferior cerebral veins not labeled, but region drained is roughly equivalent to yellow region)
Details
Drains from	cerebrum
Drains to	dural venous sinuses
Artery	cerebral arteries
Identifiers
Latin	Venae inferiores cerebri
TA	A12.3.06.013
FMA	70869
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The inferior cerebral veins are veins that drain the undersurface of the cerebral hemispheres and empty into the cavernous and transverse sinuses.

Those on the orbital surface of the frontal lobe join the superior cerebral veins, and through these open into the superior sagittal sinus.

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular

Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)

Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate

To COS	superior sagittal straight inferior sagittal occipital

To CS	sphenoparietal intercavernous superior ophthalmic ethmoidal central retinal nasofrontal vorticose veins inferior ophthalmic

To IJV	sigmoid: transverse petrosquamous superior petrosal inferior petrosal basilar plexus internal auditory veins condylar

Direct

Vertebral	occipital occipital emissary suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical

Direct	inferior thyroid inferior laryngeal thymic

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