GASTRIC ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gastric artery mean? 

• GASTRIC ARTERY (noun)
  The noun GASTRIC ARTERY has 1 sense:

1. the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach

  Familiarity information: GASTRIC ARTERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTRIC ARTERY (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 ("gastric artery" 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 "gastric artery"):

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 ("gastric artery" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

A lymph node along the left gastric artery or greater omentum.

(Gastric Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

It has three major branches, left gastric artery, common hepatic artery, and splenic artery.

(Celiac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)