Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vasa_brevis

1 sense of vasa brevis

Sense 1
short gastric artery, arteria gastrica breves, vasa brevis -- (several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach)
       => gastric artery, arteria gastrica -- (the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach)