Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, Vol. 4: Based on Mayne's Lexicon
L. Veins, dor'sal. (l. Dorsum, the back.) Two veins which proceed from a submucous plexus on the hinder part of the dorsum of the tongue; they open by means of a common trunk or separately into the common facial vein or the internal jugular vein.
L. Veins, prop'er. The small venae comites of the lingual artery, one lying above it the other below; they anastomose freely with each other and open into the internal jugular vein.
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