vena gastrica

1. 1.

   one of several veins draining the stomach walls

   Synonymsgastric vein

   Broadervein

   Narrowerleft gastric veinpyloric vein

   Part ofstomach

Questions about vena gastrica

What does vena gastrica mean?

vena gastrica means "one of several veins draining the stomach walls".

What is another word for vena gastrica?

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

vena gastrica 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.