Nasofrontal vein

Nasofrontal vein
Vein: Nasofrontal vein
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Veins of orbit.
Latin vena nasofrontalis
Gray's subject #171 659
Drains to superior ophthalmic vein

The nasofrontal vein is a vein in the eye which drains to the superior ophthalmic vein.

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