Vena Gastrica Sinistra (Noun)
Meaning
Arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The vena gastrica sinistra is formed by the junction of several veins draining the stomach's cardia region, primarily supplying oxygen-depleted blood.
- The location where the vena gastrica sinistra empties into the portal vein marks an essential confluence in the hepatic portal system.
- In addition to other hepatic portal system tributaries, the vena gastrica sinistra plays a key role in oxygen-depleted blood transport from the stomach cardia to the liver.
- This gastric vein originates in the region of the gastric cardia as the result of a convergence of gastric veins, and then ascends towards the lesser omentum to empty into the portal vein.
- Originating in the stomach cardia and coursing upward in the lesser omentum, the vena gastrica sinistra contributes deoxygenated blood from the gastric region into the portal vein.