facial vein in dogs

The anterior facial vein (facial vein) commences at the side of the root of the nose, and is a direct continuation of the angular vein where it also receives a small nasal branch. It lies behind the facial artery and follows a less tortuous course. It receives blood from the external palatine vein before it either joins the anterior branch of the retromandibular vein to form the common facial vein, or drains directly into the internal jugular vein. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the facial vein is

The anterior facial vein (facial vein) commences at the side of the root of the nose, and is a direct continuation of the angular vein where it also receives a small nasal branch. It lies behind the facial artery and follows a less tortuous course. It receives blood from the external palatine vein before it either joins the anterior branch of the retromandibular vein to form the common facial vein, or drains directly into the internal jugular vein. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the facial vein is

It sits in the head, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the facial vein connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, face and vasculature, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: internal jugular vein, anterior facial vein, submental vein, supraorbital vein, vein of lower lip and vein of upper lip.

Also called

Also recorded as face vein, vein of face, anterior facial vein and vena facialis anterior. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001653, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region, face, vasculature and venous system.
• A kind of: head blood vessel and vein.
• drains to: internal jugular vein, anterior facial vein, submental vein, supraorbital vein, vein of lower lip and vein of upper lip.
• subtype: retromandibular vein.

Questions

Where is the facial vein?

It sits in the head, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the facial vein connect to?

Part of: craniocervical region, face, vasculature and venous system.

Is the facial vein the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.