Gastroepiploic Vein (Noun)
Meaning
One of two veins serving the great curvature of the stomach.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The right gastroepiploic vein drains into the superior mesenteric vein at the level of the pancreatic neck and uncinate process junction.
- Anatomically the right gastroepiploic vein originates from the anterior and posterior branches of the stomach and pylorus region.
- It has been noted that in human cadavers, the right gastroepiploic vein frequently connects to the gastroduodenal vein near the first portion of the duodenum.
- Anastomoses exist between the right gastroepiploic vein and its left counterpart which connect at the lesser omentum's inferior edge.
- Venous blood from the right gastroepiploic vein continues on through the superior mesenteric vein before finally terminating at the portal vein.