connected to connected to Homo sapiens superior ophthalmic vein inferior ophthalmic vein uveal vein posterior ciliary vein venea vorticosae vorticose vein SCTID:368813004 vortex veins SCTID:361319002 posterior veins venae vorticosae vorticosae vorticose vein vortex vein Wikipedia:Vorticose_veins UBERON:0035547 venae vorticasae The outer layer of the choroid (lamina vasculosa) consists, in part, of the larger branches of the short ciliary arteries which run forward between the veins, before they bend inward to end in the capillaries, but is formed principally of veins, named, from their arrangement, the vorticose veins. They converge to four or five equidistant trunks, which pierce the sclera about midway between the sclero-corneal junction and the entrance of the optic nerve. They drain uveal tract. FMA:51796