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Tributaries.—The vertebral vein communicates with the transverse sinus by a vein which passes through the condyloid canal, when that canal exists. |
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FIG. 561– Diagram showing common arrangement of thyroid veins. (Kocher.) (See enlarged image)
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FIG. 562– The fascia and middle thyroid veins. The veins here designated the inferior thyroid are called by Kocher the thyroidea ima. (Poirier and Charpy.) (See enlarged image)
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It receives branches from the occipital vein and from the prevertebral muscles, from the internal and external vertebral venous plexuses, from the anterior vertebral