Great cerebral vein

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Vein: Vein of Galen

Velum interpositum.
Latin	vena magna cerebri
Gray's	subject #170 653
Drains from	cerebrum
Source	internal cerebral veins
Drains to	straight sinus
Artery	cerebral arteries
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12850873

The great cerebral vein is one of the large blood vessels in the skull draining the cerebrum (brain).

It is also known as the "vein of Galen" (VG), named for its discoverer, the Greek physician Galen. However, it is not the only vein with this eponym.^[1]

1 Disorders
2 Additional images
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Disorders

It is prone to congenital defects, such as vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations (VGAM) and vein of Galen aneurysmal dilation (VGAD).

[edit] Additional images

Dura mater and its processes exposed by removing part of the right half of the skull, and the brain.

[edit] References

^ v_04/12847795 at Dorland's Medical Dictionary

[edit] External links

great+cerebral+vein+of+Galen at eMedicine Dictionary
Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 13048.000-3
Vein of Galen images

v • d • e

Veins (emissary, jugular and others) and sinuses of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary)

to external jugular

retromandibular: maxillary • superficial temporal (anterior auricular)

posterior auricular

transverse cervical - suprascapular - anterior jugular (jugular venous arch)

to internal jugular

Diploic/brain	cerebral: superior • middle • inferior • great • internal (basal, superior thalamostriate) cerebellar: superior • inferior To COS: superior sagittal • straight (inferior sagittal) • occipital To CS: sphenoparietal • intercavernous superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal) • inferior ophthalmic • vorticose veins To IJV: sigmoid: transverse (petrosquamous) • superior petrosal inferior petrosal (basilar plexus, internal auditory veins) - condylar

Other	common facial • facial (frontal, supraorbital, angular, superior labial, inferior labial, deep facial) • pterygoid plexus lingual (dorsal lingual, deep lingual, sublingual) • pharyngeal • thyroid (superior/superior laryngeal, middle)