What is veinous system of human body and how it is arranged through out the body?
- Introduction
- Vein is a blood vessel which is also responsible for carrying blood in opposite direction of arteries except pulmonary vein and vein which carry oxygenated blood.
- We discussed about artery in previous article there artery supply blood and all required of tissueshttps://healthduhs.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-is-circulatory-system-and-human.html
- Why there is requirement of another blood vessel like vein?
- The answer of this question is very simple that the artery supply all nutrient to tissues after getting these nutrient tissue and cell again metabolize these substance during that chemical reaction there would be synthesize of waste product these waste products are not required for cell and if these will stay long inside the they will cause the change of chemistry of cell for that purpose there is a system we called veinous system that collect it and flow it toward heart and other organ like liver for detoxification. In addition to this all the material supplied by the artery will not be absorbed or used by the cell or tissue here the unused material will flow back toward heart and other organ like liver for the purpose of hemostasis.
- What is the composition of vein
- Composition
- It is made up of three layers
- a. Tunica adventitia ( tunica externa)
- It is the outer most layer of vein which is made up of connective tissue.
- Which is important for the protection of vein.
- b. Tunica media
- It is the second of vein layer which is next to inward from outer layer which is made up of smooth muscle and elastic fiber artery and vein both contain these structure but incase of vein it is thinner than artery . It controls the diameter of vein.
- c. Tunica intima
- It is the innermost layer of vein which is made up of endothelial cells if we talk about its surface that is totally smooth in nature that help them to reduce friction and make it easy for blood circulate through them. One thing about this layer it is different from artery because it contains valves which is responsible for preventing of back flow of blood and also help vein to flow of blood through them smoothly.

- How veins are spread through out the body?
- There are two largest vein of human body
- 1. Superior vena cava
- 2. Inferior vena cava
- First we will discussed about superior vena cava.
- 1. Superior
vena cava
- Superior
vena cava drain their fluid or blood directly into right atrium it is made by
the combination of two veins
- ·
Right brachiocephalic vein
- ·
Left brachiocephalic vein
- ·
Azygous vein

- Branches of right and left brachiocephalic vein
- a. Right brachiocephalic vein
- it is formed by the
combination of
- · Right subclavian vein
- · Right internal jugular vein
- · Right external vein
- b. Left brachiocephalic
vein
- It is formed by the combination of these two veins
- ·
Left subclavian vein
- ·
Left internal jugular veinl
- ·
Left external jugular vein
- c. Azygous vein
- There are several veins that
drain into azygous and azygous drain into superior vena cava. Vein that are drain
inti azygous vein.
- 1. Hemizygous vein
- 2. Accessary hemizygous vein
- 3. Right subcostal vein
- 4. Right ascending lumbar vein
- 5. Posterior intercostal vein
- 6. Esophageal vein
- 7. Pericardial vein
- 8. Mediastinal vein
- 9. Bronchial vein
- a.1. Sub-branches of right subclavian vein
- 1. Axillary vein
- it further divide into three sub-branches
- * Brachial vein
- * cephalic vein
- * Basilic vein
- 2.
Radial
vein
- it further divide into two sub-branches
- * Deep palmar vein
- * wrist vein
- 3. Ulnar vein
- it further divide into two sub-branches
- ·
Muscular vein
- ·
Superficial palmar vein
- 3.
brachial
vein
- it further divide into two sub-branches
- ·
Ulnar vein
- ·
Radial vein
- a.2. branches and sub- branches of right internal jugular vein
- it is divide into further branches
- 1.
Lingual
vein
- 2.
Superior
thyroid vein
- 3.
Pharyngeal
vein
- 4.
Superior
thyroid vein
- 5.
Inferior
petrosal vein
- 6.
Sigmoid
vein
- 7.
Facial
vein
- Sub-branches of facial vein
- ·
Deep facial vein
- ·
Superior labial vein
- ·
Inferior labial vein
- ·
Angular vein
- a.3 Right external jugular vein
- it collect blood from scalp, face, posterior neck region, superficial neck region and shoulder region.
- b.1. branches and sub-branches of left subclavian
- vein
- Axillary vein
- it further divide into three sub-branches
- * Brachial vein
- * cephalic vein
- * Basilic vein
- 4.
Radial
vein
- it further divide into two sub-branches
- * Deep palmar vein
- * wrist vein
- 3. Ulnar vein
- it further divide into two sub-branches
- ·
Muscular vein
- ·
Superficial palmar vein
- 5.
brachial
vein
- it further divide into two sub-branches
- ·
Ulnar vein
- ·
Radial vein
- b.2. branches and sub-branches of left internal Juglar
- vein
- 1.
Pharyngeal
vein
- 2.
Lingual
vein
- ·
Sublingual vein
- ·
Deep lingual vein
- ·
Dorsal lingual vein
- 3.
Middle
thyroid vein
- 4.
Superior
thyroid vein
- ·
Superior laryngeal vein
- ·
Cricothyroid vein
- 5.
Inferior
petrosal vein
- 6.
Common facial vein
- ·
Superior labial vein
- ·
Inferior labial vein
- ·
Deep facial vein
- ·
Angular vein
- b.3. Left external jugular vein
- it collect blood from scalp, face, posterior neck region, superficial neck region and shoulder region.
- 3. Inferior vena cava
- It is a largest vein of human body which collect deoxygenated blood from the lower side of body.It is formed by the combination of two veins.
- 1. Right
common iliac vein
- 2. Left
common iliac vein
- 3. Phyrenic vein
- 4. Renal vein

- a.1 Right common iliac vein
- it is formed by the combination of two vein
- ·
Internal iliac vein
- ·
external iliac vein
- sub-branches of internal and external iliac vein
- * right internal iliac vein
- * vesical vein
- * vaginal vein
- * uterine vein
- * middle rectal vein
- * internal pudendal vein
- * superior gluteal vein
- * inferior gluteal vein
- * lateral sacral vein
- * obturator vein
- * iliolumbar vein
- Right External iliac vein
- ·
deep circumflex vein
- ·
inferior epigastric vein
- ·
pubic vein
- ·
pelvic wall vein
- after the branches external iliac become femoral vein
- femoral vein
- ·
tibial vein
- ·
popliteal vein
- ·
posterior tibial
- ·
anterior tibial
- ·
fibular
- a.2 left common iliac vein
- it is formed by the combination of two vein
- ·
Internal iliac vein
- ·
external iliac vein
- sub-branches of internal and external iliac vein
- * left internal iliac vein
- * vesical vein
- * vaginal vein
- * uterine vein
- * middle rectal vein
- * internal pudendal vein
- * superior gluteal vein
- * inferior gluteal vein
- * lateral sacral vein
- * obturator vein
- * iliolumbar vein
- left External iliac vein
- ·
deep circumflex vein
- ·
inferior epigastric vein
- ·
pubic vein
- ·
pelvic wall vein
- after the branches external iliac become femoral vein
- femoral vein
- ·
tibial vein
- ·
popliteal vein
- ·
posterior tibial
- ·
anterior tibial
- ·
fibular
- 4.
phrenic vein
- it collects vein from
- ·
Diaphragm muscle
- ·
Esophageal vein
- ·
Suprarenal vein
- And drain into inferior vena cava
- 5.
Renal vein
- · Left
renal vein
- It collect vein from
- ·
Left inferior phrenic
- ·
Left gonadal vein
- ·
Left suprarenal vein
- ·
Right renal vein
- ·
Only kidney vein
- Both renal vein drain into inferior vena cava
- WHO -World Health Organisation
- NIH- National Institute Of Health)
- CDC- Centre for Disease Control and prevention
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