Internal cerebral veins

Internal cerebral veins
Coronal section of lateral and third ventricles.
Velum interpositum. (Internal cerebral veins labeled as velar veins.)
Details
Drains to	great cerebral vein
Artery	cerebral arteries
Identifiers
Latin	venae internae cerebri
Dorlands /Elsevier	Internal cerebral veins
TA	A12.3.06.028
FMA	70876
Anatomical terminology []

The internal cerebral veins (deep cerebral veins) drain the deep parts of the hemisphere and are two in number; each is formed near the Interventricular foramen by the union of the terminal and choroid veins.

They run backward parallel with one another, between the layers of the tela chorioidea of the third ventricle, and beneath the splenium of the corpus callosum, where they unite to form a short trunk, the great cerebral vein of Galen; just before their union each receives the corresponding basal vein.

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