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LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE OF ORAL CAVITY AND

ORO-PHARYNX 1.

NOTE: PRIMARY DRAINAGE
(TISSUE TO FIRST

NODES) IS SHOWN
BY OPEN ARROWS;
 SUBSEQUENT
DRAINAGE
(BETWEEN
SUCCESSIVE PAROTID LYMPH NODES
GROUPS OF (WITHIN OUTSIDE
CAPSULE
NODES) BY BLACK OF SALIVARY GLA
ARROWS 

"TONSILLAR" NODE
(JUST BEHIND ANGLE OF
UPPER
MANDIBLE) -DRAINS
PALATINE TONSIL & ALWAYS
BUCCAL ENLARGED DURING
("CHEEK") NODES LOWER TONSILLITIS
ON EXTERNAL SUPERIOR
SURFACE OF GROUP DEEP CERVICAL
BUCCINATORM. (OR "JUGULANK")
NODES AROUND
MIDDLE INTERNAL
1
SUBMENTAL GROUP JUGULAR VEIN
("BENEATH THE CHIN") INFERIOR
NODES (SUPERFICIAL) GROUP

SUBMANDIBUKAR SUPRACLAVLCULIAR
NODES (WITHIN NODES (SI 76)
CAPSULE OF
SALLUARY GLAND). TO : CLAVICLE
LEFT LYMPHO-VENOUS PORTAL (SI 75,76)
LARYNGEAL
PROMINENCE ("ADAM'S APPLE"),

1. THE UPPER PARTS OF THE ORAL CAVITY DRAIN TO THE BUCCAL & PAROTID
NODES.
2. THE LOWER PARTS OF THE ORAL CAVITY DRAIN TO THE SUBMENTAL &
SUBMANDIBULAR NODES

3. THE OROPHARYNX DRAINS DIRECTLY TO THE SUPERIOR DEEP CERVICAL
(JUGULAR) NODES, INCLUDING THE TONSILLAR NODE.

4. ULTIMATELY, THE LYMPH DRAINS SUCCESSIVELY THROUGH THE THREE DEEP
CERVICAL GROUPS TO REACH THE LYMPHO-VENOUS PORTAL.

5. NOTE THE LEVEL OF THE MIDDLE DEEP LERVICAL NODES, JUST BEHIND THE
LARYNK.
1 NOTE. Latin “mentum” - the chin; c.f. “mean” - the mind. Unfortunately, English renders
NOTE. Latin "mentum" - the chin; c.f. "mens"- the mind. Unfortunately, English renders
adjectives from both these words as “menta”.
adjectives from both these words as "mental"