Excerpt from The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, Vol. 4: Based on Mayne's Lexicon L. Veins, dor'sal. (l. Dorsum, the back.) Two veins which proceed from a submucous plexus on the hinder part of the dorsum of the tongue; they open by means of a common trunk or separately into the common facial vein or the internal jugular vein. L. Veins, prop'er. The small venae comites of the lingual artery, one lying above it the other below; they anastomose freely with each other and open into the internal jugular vein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.