gastric artery

1. 1.

   the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach

   Synonymsarteria gastrica

   Broaderartery

   Narrowerright gastric arteryleft gastric arteryshort gastric artery

   Part ofstomach

Questions about gastric artery

What does gastric artery mean?

gastric artery means "the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach".

What is another word for gastric artery?

Close synonyms include arteria gastrica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gastric artery a common word?

gastric artery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.