Deep cervical vein

The deep cervical vein (posterior vertebral vein or posterior deep cervical vein^{[citation needed]}) is the vena comitans of the deep cervical artery. The vein is formed in the suboccipital region by the convergence of communicating branches of the occipital vein, veins draining the suboccipital muscles, and veins from the venous plexuses that surround cervical nerves. The vein and corresponding artery then pass in between the semispinalis capitis muscle and the semispinalis colli muscle. The vein passes anterior-ward in between the transverse process of the 7th cervical vertebra and the neck of the first rib to terminate in the vertebral vein.^[1]

Deep cervical vein
The vertebral vein
Details
Drains to	Vertebral vein
Artery	Deep cervical artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena cervicalis profunda
TA98	A12.3.04.017
TA2	4785
FMA	4746
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