List of articles in "Anatomical Structure" category - Page 90

The occipital emissary vein is a small emissary vein which passes through the condylar canal.This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray’s Anatomy.

The terminal nerve or cranial nerve zero was discovered by German scientist Gustav Fritsch in 1878 in the brains of sharks. It was first found in humans in 1913 although […]

The body of the mandible is curved somewhat like a horseshoe and has two surfaces and two borders.

The various muscles of respiration aid in both inspiration and expiration which require changes in the pressure within the thoracic cavity. The respiratory muscles work to achieve this by changing […]

Sinus is a sac or cavity in any organ or tissue or an abnormal cavity or passage caused by the destruction of tissue. In common usage sinus usually refers to […]

Just above the sternum the two anterior jugular veins communicate by a transverse trunk the jugular venous arch (or venous jugular arch) which receive tributaries from the inferior thyroid veins; […]

The preauricular deep parotid lymph nodes (anterior auricular glands or preauricular glands) from one to three in number lie immediately in front of the tragus. Their afferents drain multiple surfaces […]

The superior deep cervical lymph nodes lie under the Sternocleidomastoideus in close relation with the accessory nerve and the internal jugular vein.Some of the glands lie in front of and […]

The inferior deep cervical lymph nodes extend beyond the posterior margin of the Sternocleidomastoideus into the supraclavicular triangle where they are closely related to the brachial plexus and subclavian vein.This […]

The efferents of the superior deep cervical glands pass partly to the inferior deep cervical glands and partly to a trunk which unites with the efferent vessel of the inferior […]