ARTERIA GASTRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arteria gastrica mean? 

• ARTERIA GASTRICA (noun)
  The noun ARTERIA GASTRICA has 1 sense:

1. the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach

  Familiarity information: ARTERIA GASTRICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTERIA GASTRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The arteries that supply the walls of the stomach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria gastrica; gastric artery

Hypernyms ("arteria gastrica" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arteria gastrica"):

ateria gastrica dextra; right gastric artery (a branch of the hepatic artery that supplies the pyloric portion of the stomach on the lesser curvature)

arteria gastrica sinistra; left gastric artery (a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus)

arteria gastrica breves; short gastric artery; vasa brevis (several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach)

Holonyms ("arteria gastrica" is a part of...):

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)