Anterior jugular vein

V. jugularis anterior, the anterior jugular vein, is formed from small veins above the hyoid bone, from which it descends vertically downwards. Both v. The jugulares anteriores, right and left, pierce a deep leaf of fascia colli propria, enter the spatium interaponeuroticum suprasternal and infuse the subclavian vein. In the nadprudinnom gap both vv. jugulares anteriores anastomose among themselves with one or two trunks. Thus, a venous arch, the so-called arcus venbsus juguli, forms above the upper edge of the sternum and the clavicle. In some cases, w. jugulares anteriores are replaced by one unpaired v. jugularis anterior, which descends along the midline and below, merges into the said venous arch, which in such cases forms from the anastomosis between the vv. jugulares externae.