 Everybody, Dr. O here. So hopefully you've already watched the videos that covers the major arteries and you understand a lot of these terms like subclavian and axillary and the like. Now we're going to go through the veins. So the veins are more complicated than the arteries because since veins have such low pressure there have to be superficial and deep veins to carry your blood back towards the heart. So there's going to be extra veins that weren't there with the arteries but most of the veins still have the same name as the artery in that area. So if you already know your arteries you're going to be pretty much three-quarters of the way there when it comes to the veins. So here you see all the veins but I'm going to dive into the closer images and help you out again here. All right. So here we're looking at the head here. We have the vertebral vein running in the same place as the vertebral artery. When I think of the head and neck I primarily think of the carotid arteries going up and the jugular veins coming down. So you have there you have the internal and external jugular veins then at the bottom we have the subclavian running under the clavicles again and the axillary vein there in your armpit region your axilla. All right. Here again with the abdominal cavity I don't ask a lot of questions here mainly because I don't like asking you to know blood vessels without seeing where they're coming from or where they're going at least at this level in your education. But you can see pretty good look there at the vertebral vein at the top. There's your internal and external jugular veins again the subclavian running under the clavicle axillary under the in the armpit region of the axilla. We'll do a separate video where I cover the arm but you can see the cephalic vein here as well but I'll ask you to know it when you can see the entire arm. There you do have this is a great place to see the superior and inferior vena cava remember the superior vena cava is the largest vessel draining blood from above the heart the inferior vena cava largest vessel draining the blood or pulling the black blood back up from below the heart. Those are probably the two key ones on here. You can see the renal veins I may ask you that one because the kidneys are still there so you know where that blood vessel is attached and then at the bottom you can see the common iliac veins that are connected to the internal and external iliac veins. So at the arteries the common iliac arteries branch to the internal and external but now we're going the other direction so really the internal and external iliac veins are connecting to form the common iliac vein on the way back up to the heart. All right this is the most important image when it comes to veins this is where students struggle the most understanding the veins of the arm to me is the most complicated so we'll start there at the top you see the subclavian vein again I've mentioned it several times it's the part of this vein that runs underneath the clavicle. The axillary vein is the part that runs in the axilla region there you see at the top you see the cephalic vein and the bacillic vein these are two brand new words you didn't see with the arteries we did have a brachial artery and we still have a brachial vein but there are extra veins running up up the arms so the cephalic vein and the bacillic vein are the two new ones to learn here there's not really any great tricks just remember where they are and memorize their location so that's the cephalic the brachial and the bacillic veins in the upper arm or the arm region now we're down into the elbow you see the median cubital vein this is one that I always ask about on identification quizzes because this is the primary vein where you're going to get blood if you're drawing blood from someone they don't you don't have to use this one but that's where you aim that's the median cubital vein and then now we're down into the forearm so we do have radial and ulnar veins just like we had radial and ulnar arteries but there's a couple new ones to remember here we still have the cephalic and bacillic veins down here but if I'm going to ask you about those I'll ask you in the upper arm just so you know so the last new one here is the median anti-brachial so the anti-brachium is your forearm the brachial region is your upper arm the anti-brachium is your forearm so this is the median anti-brachial vein and then lastly I did ask the digital veins you'd have digital arteries in your fingers too that's your digits so the digital arteries and digital veins would be there all right so this this is this is by far the most important image spend most of your time as far as veins go learning this one because there are several new ones that you didn't see when you learn the arteries of the arm all right here we see the lower extremity so we have the common internal and external iliac veins again another new one we have the great saphenous vein this one's famous for being the longest vein in your body so you can see the great saphenous there both on the anterior and posterior view that's a very important new one again femoral vein same place as the femoral artery popliteal remember popliteus means behind the knee so same thing there and then we have the anterior and posterior tibial veins so hopefully like I said if you've already conquered your arteries and know them then you'll recognize most of these terms so the brand new ones think great saphenous the ones in the arm there those are going to be the key new ones and then your regular veins in your in your head and neck okay those are all the major veins I hope this helps have a wonderful day be blessed