Tributaries Received
It receives tributaries corresponding with the branches of the maxillary artery.
Thus it receives the following veins:
- sphenopalatine
- middle meningeal
- deep temporal (anterior & posterior)
- pterygoid
- masseteric
- buccinator
- alveolar
- some palatine veins (palatine vein which divides into the greater and lesser palatine v.)
- a branch which communicates with the ophthalmic vein through the inferior orbital fissure
- infraorbital vein
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