See Also: left gastric vein(medicine)
left gastric artery(medicine)
left gastric lymph nodes(medicine)
oesophageal branches of the left gastric artery(medicine)
right gastric vein(medicine)
left colic vein(medicine)
left coronary vein(medicine)
left ovarian vein(medicine)
left umbilical vein(medicine)
left suprarenal vein(medicine)

left gastric vein (medicine)


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.