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

1 sense of vena gastrica sinistra

Sense 1
left gastric vein, vena gastrica sinistra -- (arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein)
       => gastric vein, vena gastrica -- (one of several veins draining the stomach walls)