supraorbital vein in dogs

The supraorbital vein begins on the forehead where it communicates with the frontal branch of the superficial temporal vein. It runs downward superficial to the Frontalis muscle, and joins the frontal vein at the medial angle of the orbit to form the angular vein. Previous to its junction with the frontal vein, it sends through the supraorbital notch into the orbit a branch which communicates with the ophthalmic vein; as this vessel passes through the notch, it receives the frontal diploic vein through a foramen at the bottom of the notch. The areas drained by this vessel are the forehead, eyebrow and upper eyelid. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the supraorbital vein is

The supraorbital vein begins on the forehead where it communicates with the frontal branch of the superficial temporal vein. It runs downward superficial to the Frontalis muscle, and joins the frontal vein at the medial angle of the orbit to form the angular vein. Previous to its junction with the frontal vein, it sends through the supraorbital notch into the orbit a branch which communicates with the ophthalmic vein; as this vessel passes through the notch, it receives the frontal diploic vein through a foramen at the bottom of the notch. The areas drained by this vessel are the forehead, eyebrow and upper eyelid. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the supraorbital 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 supraorbital vein connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, head and vasculature, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: facial vein.

Also called

Also recorded as supra-orbital vein. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001654, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region, head, vasculature and venous system.
• A kind of: head blood vessel and vein.
• Drains: levator palpebrae superioris and upper eyelid.
• drains to: facial vein.

Questions

Where is the supraorbital 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 supraorbital vein connect to?

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

Is the supraorbital 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.