supraorbital vein

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 human body.

Where the supraorbital vein is

It sits in the head, within the cardiovascular system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the supraorbital vein connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of superior palpebral vein.

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.

• A kind of: superior palpebral 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. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the supraorbital vein connect to?

A kind of: superior palpebral vein.

Is the supraorbital 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.