Right Gastroepiploic Artery

Information about Right Gastroepiploic Artery

*Artery:*

The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Right gastroepiploic artery visible at lower left.)

Right and left gastroomental is at #4.
Latin	arteria gastro-omentalis dextra, arteria gastroepiploica dextra
	subject #154 604
Source	gastroduodenal artery
Vein	right gastro-omental vein
Dorlands/Elsevier	a_61/12154368

The right gastro-omental artery (or right gastroepiploic artery) runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, anastomosing with the left gastroepiploic branch of the splenic artery.

Except at the pylorus where it is in contact with the stomach, it lies about a finger's breadth from the greater curvature.

Branches

This vessel gives off numerous branches:

"gastric branches": ascend to supply both surfaces of the stomach.
"omental branches": descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.

External links

SUNY Figs 38:01-14 - "Branches of the celiac trunk."
SUNY Labs 38:02-0101 - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Right and Left Gastroepiploic Artery"
right+gastroomental+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
Norman/Georgetown celiactrunk

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Arteries of torso - abdomen

ABDOMINAL AORTA:
Anterior

celiac	left gastric – splenic: pancreatic branches (arteria pancreatica magna) – short gastric – left gastro-omental – common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal)
superior mesenteric	inferior pancreaticoduodenal – intestinal – ileocolic (appendicular) – right colic – middle colic
inferior mesenteric	left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal

ABDOMINAL AORTA:
Posterior

Visceral: middle suprarenal – renal (inferior suprarenal) – testicular/ovarian
Parietal: inferior phrenic (superior suprarenal) – lumbar – median sacral
Terminal branches: common iliac

INTERNAL ILIAC:
Anterior

umbilical (superior vesical, to ductus deferens) – inferior vesical – middle rectal – uterine (azygos of the vagina) – vaginal – obturator (anterior branch, posterior branch) – internal pudendal (inferior rectal, perineal, artery of the urethral bulb, urethral, deep artery of the penis, dorsal artery of the penis) – inferior gluteal (accompanying of ischiadic nerve, crucial anastomosis)

INTERNAL ILIAC:
Posterior

iliolumbar – lateral sacral – superior gluteal

EXTERNAL ILIAC

inferior epigastric (cremasteric) – deep circumflex iliac

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In anatomy, the gastroduodenal artery is a small blood vessel in the abdomen.

It supplies blood to the pylorus (distal part of the stomach) and the proximal part of the duodenum.
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The right gastroepiploic vein (right gastroomental vein) receives branches from the greater omentum and from the lower parts of the antero-superior and posteroinferior surfaces of the stomach; it runs from left to right along the greater curvature of the stomach between the
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The greater curvature of the stomach is directed mainly forward, and is four or five times as long as the lesser curvature.

Surface

Starting from the cardiac orifice at the incisura cardiaca, it forms an arch backward, upward, and to the left; the highest point of the
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In anatomy, the stomach is a bean-shaped hollow muscular organ of the gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication. The word stomach is derived from the Latin stomachus, which derives from the Greek word
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The greater omentum (great omentum; gastrocolic omentum; epiploon) is a large fold of peritoneum that hangs down from the stomach, and extends from the stomach to the posterior abdominal wall after associating with the transverse colon.
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The left gastro-omental artery (or left gastroepiploic artery), the largest branch of the splenic artery, runs from left to right about a finger’s breadth or more from the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, and anastomoses
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In anatomy, the splenic artery (in the past called the lienal artery) is the blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the spleen. It branches from the celiac artery, and follows a course superior to the pancreas.
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Not to be confused with Pillory.

The pylorus (from Greek πυλωρος = "gate guard") is the region of the stomach that connects to the duodenum.
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The middle colic artery is a branch of the superior mesenteric artery that mostly supplies the transverse colon. It arises just below the pancreas, and, passing downward and forward between the layers of the transverse mesocolon, divides into two branches: right and left.
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Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened) is an English-language human anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on the subject.
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Arteries are muscular blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.^[1] All arteries, with the exception of the pulmonary and umbilical arteries, carry oxygenated blood.

The circulatory system is extremely important for sustaining life.
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Torso is an anatomical term for the central part of the many animal bodies (including that of the human) from which extend the neck and limbs. It is sometimes referred to as the trunk. The torso includes the thorax and abdomen.
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human abdomen (from the Latin word meaning "belly") is the part of the body between the pelvis and the thorax. Anatomically, the abdomen stretches from the thorax at the thoracic diaphragm to the pelvis at the pelvic brim.
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The abdominal aorta is the largest artery in the abdominal cavity. As part of the aorta, it is a direct continuation of descending aorta (of the thorax).

Path

It begins at the level of the diaphragm, crossing it via the aortic hiatus at the vertebral level of T12.
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The celiac artery, also known as the celiac trunk and also spelled as coeliac, is the first major branch of the abdominal aorta and branches from the aorta around the level of the T12 vertebra in humans.
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In human anatomy, the left gastric artery arises from the celiac artery, and runs along the superior portion of the lesser curvature of the stomach. Branches also supply the lower esophagus.
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The pancreatic branches are numerous small vessels derived from the splenic artery as it runs behind the upper border of the pancreas, supplying its body and tail.
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In human anatomy, the arteria pancreatica magna, also great pancreatic artery and greater pancreatic artery, is the largest blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the pancreas and arises from the splenic artery.
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The short gastric arteries consist of from five to seven small branches, which arise from the end of the splenic artery, and from its terminal divisions.

They pass from left to right, between the layers of the gastrolienal ligament, and are distributed to the greater
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