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vena gastrica sinistra (medicine)


vena gastrica sinistra -->
left gastric vein
<anatomy, vein> Arises from a union of veins from both surfaces of the cardia of the stomach and an oesophageal tributary from the cardiac portion of the oesophagus; it runs in the lesser omentum and empties into the portal vein.

See: oesophageal veins.

Synonym: vena gastrica sinistra, coronary vein, vena coronaria ventriculi.