Anterior cardinal vein

Anterior cardinal vein
Scheme of arrangement of parietal veins
Human embryo with heart and anterior body-wall removed to show the sinus venosus and its tributaries.
Details
Carnegie stage	13
Gives rise to	Internal jugular veins and superior vena cava
System	Cardiovascular system
Identifiers
Latin	venae precardinalis
TE	cardinal vein_by_E5.11.2.2.2.2.2 E5.11.2.2.2.2.2
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The anterior cardinal veins (precardinal veins) contribute to the formation of the internal jugular veins and together with the common cardinal vein form the superior vena cava.

The anastomosis between the two anterior cardinal veins develops into the left brachiocephalic vein.[1]

Additional images

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  Human embryo of about fourteen days, with yolk sac.

See also

• Posterior cardinal vein

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 520 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

1. Sadler, T. W. (2019). Langman's medical embryology (Fourteenth ed.). Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-4963-8390-7. OCLC 1042400100.

External links

• Embryology at UNSW Notes/heart3
• Diagram at nature.com