See Also: curvatura ventriculi major(medicine)
curvatura ventriculi minor(medicine)
curvatura(medicine)
filtrum ventriculi(medicine)
stigma ventriculi(medicine)
trigonum ventriculi(medicine)
descensus ventriculi(medicine)
fundus ventriculi(medicine)
tenia ventriculi quarti(medicine)
tegmen ventriculi quarti(medicine)

Philippi (sh) and curvatura ventriculi major (medicine)


Philippi (sh)




Ruined hill town, northern central Macedonia, Greece.

In งใ 357 BC it was fortified by King Philip II to control nearby gold mines. In 42 BC it was the scene of the decisive Roman battle in which Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus) defeated Brutus and Cassius, the leading assassins of Julius Caesar. Many Christian ruins, especially of the 5th-6th century AD, are spread over the site. St. Paul preached the gospel to Christian converts there.


curvatura ventriculi major (medicine)


curvatura ventriculi major -->
greater curvature of stomach


The border of the stomach to which the greater omentum is attached.

Synonym: curvatura ventriculi major.