left gastric vein

1. 1.

   arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein

   Synonymsvena gastrica sinistra

   Broadergastric vein

Questions about left gastric vein

What does left gastric vein mean?

left gastric vein means "arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein".

What is another word for left gastric vein?

Close synonyms include vena gastrica sinistra. 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 left gastric vein a common word?

left gastric vein 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.