Left marginal vein

Left marginal vein
Base and diaphragmatic surface of heart. (Left marginal vein labeled at center left.)
Details
Drains from	Left ventricle
Drains to	Great cardiac vein
Artery	Left marginal artery
Identifiers
Latin	Vena marginalis sinistra
TA	A12.3.01.005
FMA	4708
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The great cardiac vein receives tributaries from the left atrium and from both ventricles: one, the left marginal vein, is of considerable size, and ascends along the left margin of the heart.

References

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

Veins of the thorax and vertebral column

Thorax

Coronary

Coronary sinus	Great cardiac (Left marginal) Posterior of the left ventricle Oblique of the left atrium (Ligament of the left vena cava) Middle cardiac

Small cardiac vein	Anterior cardiac (Right marginal)

Smallest cardiac veins	Right atrial veins Right ventricular veins

Pulmonary

superior
vena cava

Brachiocephalic	internal thoracic anterior intercostal superior epigastric left superior intercostal supreme vertebral subclavian axillary: lateral thoracic thoracoepigastric dorsal scapular external jugular pericardiacophrenic internal jugular

Azygos	right superior intercostal bronchial intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos superior phrenic

Vertebral column

vertebral venous plexuses
- external
- internal
spinal
- posterior
- anterior
basivertebral
intervertebral

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