Occipital vein

Occipital vein

Anatomy

Course
A superficial vein of the scalp that originates from a plexus. It eventually becomes one vein that empties into the internal jugular vein, or into another plexus – the suboccipital plexus.

Drain

Drains the occipital region of the scalp.

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