external jugular vein
The external jugular vein receives the greater part of the blood from the exterior of the cranium and the deep parts of the face, being formed by the junction of the posterior division of the posterior facial with the posterior auricular vein. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the external jugular vein is
The external jugular vein receives the greater part of the blood from the exterior of the cranium and the deep parts of the face, being formed by the junction of the posterior division of the posterior facial with the posterior auricular vein. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the external jugular vein is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the external jugular vein connects to
The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of vein.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: subclavian vein, anterior jugular vein, posterior auricular vein, posterior external jugular vein, retromandibular vein and suprascapular vein, and 1 more.
Also called
Also recorded as external jugular venous tree, external jugular and vena jugularis externa. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001101, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: vein.
- drains to: subclavian vein, anterior jugular vein, posterior auricular vein, posterior external jugular vein, retromandibular vein and suprascapular vein, and 1 more.
Questions
Where is the external jugular vein?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the external jugular vein connect to?
A kind of: vein.
Is the external jugular vein the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.