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maxillary vein

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A vein that consists of a short trunk which accompanies the first part of the internal maxillary artery. It is formed by a confluence of the veins of the pterygoid plexus, and passes backward between the sphenomandibular ligament and the neck of the mandible, and unites with the superficial temporal vein to form the retromandibular vein. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxillary_vein ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

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database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depiction

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gray557.png

id

UBERON:0001660

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

taxon notes

in horses, a branch of the external jugular gives off the occipital and caudal auricular vein

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