NOUN
- a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus
How To Use left gastric artery In A Sentence
- The surgeon incises the omentum along the lesser curvature of the stomach at a point below the second branch of the left gastric artery.
- The omental bursa, therefore, consists of a series of pouches or recesses to which the following terms are applied: (1) the vestibule, a narrow channel continued from the epiploic foramen, over the head of the pancreas to the gastropancreatic fold; this fold extends from the omental tuberosity of the pancreas to the right side of the fundus of the stomach, and contains the left gastric artery and coronary vein; (2) the superior omental recess, between the caudate lobe of the liver and the diaphragm; (3) the lienal recess, between the spleen and the stomach; (4) the inferior omental recess, which comprises the remainder of the bursa. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
- Gastropancreatic fold and hepatopancreatic fold formed by capsula pancreas can be marked to locate the root of left gastric artery and common hepatic artery in laparoscopic vision.
- The lesser omentum contains the left gastric artery, a branch of the celiac artery, and the right gastric branch of the hepatic artery.
