right gastric vein

1. 1.

   receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein

   Synonymspyloric veinvena gastrica-dextra

   Broadergastric vein

Questions about right gastric vein

What does right gastric vein mean?

right gastric vein means "receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein".

What is another word for right gastric vein?

Close synonyms include pyloric vein, vena gastrica-dextra. 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 right gastric vein a common word?

right 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.