internal jugular vein

One of two jugular veins that collect the blood from the brain, the superficial parts of the face, and the neck. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the internal jugular vein is

One of two jugular veins that collect the blood from the brain, the superficial parts of the face, and the neck. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the internal jugular vein is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the internal jugular vein connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. a kind of vein.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: facial vein and sigmoid sinus.

Also called

Also recorded as internal jugular, internal jugular venous tree and vena jugularis interna. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001586, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: vein.
• Connected to: brachiocephalic vein, inferior petrosal sinus, lingual vein and superior thyroid vein.
• Drains: brain and face.
• contains: inferior bulb of internal jugular vein, jugular body and superior bulb of internal jugular vein.
• drains to: facial vein and sigmoid sinus.
• transports: jugular foramen.
• overlaps: middle thyroid vein.

Questions

Where is the internal jugular vein?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the internal jugular vein connect to?

A kind of: vein.

Is the internal 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.