Information about Cerebral Veins

Vein: Cerebral veins
Sagittal section of the skull, showing the sinuses of the dura. (Cerebral veins labeled at center left.)
Latinvv. cerebri
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Arterycerebral arteries
The cerebral veins are divisible into external and internal (internal cerebral veins) groups according as they drain the outer surfaces or the inner parts of the hemispheres.

The external veins are the superior cerebral veins, inferior cerebral veins, and middle cerebral vein.

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Cerebral arteries can refer to:
  • Anterior cerebral artery
  • Middle cerebral artery
  • Posterior cerebral artery

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The internal cerebral veins (veins of Galen; deep cerebral veins) drain the deep parts of the hemisphere and are two in number; each is formed near the interventricular foramen by the union of the terminal and choroid veins.
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The Superior Cerebral Veins, eight to twelve in number, drain the superior, lateral, and medial surfaces of the hemispheres, and are mainly lodged in the sulci between the gyri, but some run across the gyri.
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The inferior cerebral veins, of small size, drain the under surfaces of the hemispheres.

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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The middle cerebral vein (superficial Sylvian vein) begins on the lateral surface of the hemisphere, and, running along the lateral cerebral fissure, ends in the cavernous or the sphenoparietal sinus.
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Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened) is an English-language human anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on the subject.
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