. Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy. Anatomy. VISCERAL BRANCHES OE THE ABDOMINAL AORTA. 929 forwards for a distance of about 12 mm. (half an inch), and terminates by dividing into three large branches—the left gastric, the hepatic, and the splenic. Relations.—The short trunk lies behind the omental bursa, and runs forwards below tbe caudate lobe of the liver and above the upper border of the pancreas and the splenic vein. It is surrounded by the coeliac plexus of the sympathetic, and has the right cceliac ganglion to its right side and the left coeliac ganglion to its left side. Branches.—(a)
. Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy. Anatomy. VISCERAL BRANCHES OE THE ABDOMINAL AORTA. 929 forwards for a distance of about 12 mm. (half an inch), and terminates by dividing into three large branches—the left gastric, the hepatic, and the splenic. Relations.—The short trunk lies behind the omental bursa, and runs forwards below tbe caudate lobe of the liver and above the upper border of the pancreas and the splenic vein. It is surrounded by the coeliac plexus of the sympathetic, and has the right cceliac ganglion to its right side and the left coeliac ganglion to its left side. Branches.—(a) The left gastric ( coronary) is the smallest branch of the cceliac artery. It runs obliquely upwards and to the left, and reaches the lesser curvature of the stomach close to the oesophagus. It then turns sharply forwards, downwards, and to the right, and runs towards the pyloric end of the stomach to anastomose with the right gastric branch of the hepatic artery. In the first part of its course the artery lies posterior to the omental bursa; it then Inferior hrenic arteries. Short gastric /arteries Left gastro- Cystic artery' VN-—__-—^ epiploic artery Superior pancreatico- / / J V Splenic artery duodenal artery Left gastric artery Gastro-duodenal artery Right gastro-epiploic artery ' Hepatic artery Eight gastric artery i Fig. 771.—The Cceliac Artery and its Branches. passes into the left gastro-pancreatic fold, and is continued between the layers of the lesser omentum. Branches.—(i.) (Esophageal.—When the left gastric artery reaches the stomach it gives off an oesophageal branch which passes upwards, on the oesophagus, and breaks up into branches which anastomose with oesophageal branches of the thoracic aorta and with branches of the inferior phrenic, (ii.) Gastric branches are distributed to both surfaces of the stomach. They anastomose with branches of the short gastric of the splenic, and with branches of the gastro- epiploic arterial arch on the greate
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