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Definition of Left gastric vein

1. Noun. Arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein.

Medical Definition of Left gastric vein

1. Arises from a union of veins from both surfaces of the cardia of the stomach and an oesophageal tributary from the cardiac portion of the oesophagus; it runs in the lesser omentum and empties into the portal vein. See: oesophageal veins. Synonym: vena gastrica sinistra, coronary vein, vena coronaria ventriculi. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Left Gastric Vein

Literary usage of Left gastric vein

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"PGBI.V.), and also a very large ventral gastric vein (fig- 30, V.Gas.V.), which anastomoses anteriorly with the left gastric vein and posteriorly ..."

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