GASTRIC VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gastric vein mean? 

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

1. one of several veins draining the stomach walls

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTRIC VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of several veins draining the stomach walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

gastric vein; vena gastrica

Hypernyms ("gastric vein" is a kind of...):

vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gastric vein"):

left gastric vein; vena gastrica sinistra (arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein)

pyloric vein; right gastric vein; vena gastrica-dextra (receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein)

Holonyms ("gastric vein" is a part of...):

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