page_title: Pharyngeal veins
hierarchical_section_title: Pharyngeal veins
caption_attribution_description: Muscles of the pharynx, viewed from behind, together with the associated vessels and nerves. (Modified after Testut.)
context_page_description: The pharyngeal veins begin in the pharyngeal plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.
  They occasionally open into the facial, lingual, or superior thyroid vein.
context_section_description: The pharyngeal veins begin in the pharyngeal plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.
  They occasionally open into the facial, lingual, or superior thyroid vein.
caption: Muscles of the pharynx, viewed from behind, together with the associated vessels and nerves.
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