SUPERIOR MESEXTERIC ARTERY, 



curve of the stomach, lying between the layers of the great omentum, 

 and inosculates with the gastro-epiploica dextra. It is distributed to 

 the greater curve of the stomach and to the great omentum. 



Fig. 123.* 



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The SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY,the second of the single trunks, 

 and next in size to the coeliac axis, arises from the aorta immediately 

 below that vessel, and behind the pancreas. It passes forwards 

 between the pancreas and transverse duodenum, and descends within 

 the layers of the mesentery, to the right iliac fossa, where it terminates 



* The distribution of the branches of the coeliac axis. 1. The liver. 2. Its 

 transverse fissure. 3. The gall bladder. 4. The stomach. 5. The entrance 

 of the oesophagus. 6. The pylorus. 7- The duodenum, its descending por- 

 tion. 8. The transverse portion of the duodenum. 9. The pancreas. 10. 

 The spleen. 11. The aorta. 12. The coeliac axis. 13. The gastric artery. 

 14. The hepatic artery. 15. Its pyloric branch. 16. The gastro-duodenaiis. 

 I/. The gastro-epiploica dextra. 18. The pancreatico-duodenalis, inosculating 

 with a branch from the superior mesenteric artery. 19- The division of the 

 hepatic artery into its right and left branches ; the right giving off the cystic 

 branch. 20. The splenic artery, traced by dotted lines behind the stomach to 

 the spleen. 21. The gastro-epiploica sinistra, inosculating along the great 

 curvature of the stomach with the gastro epiploica dextra. 22. The pancrea- 

 tica magna. 23. The vasa brevia to the great end of the stomach, inosculating 

 with branches of the gastric artery. 24. The superior mesenteric artery, 

 emerging from between the pancreas and transverse portion of the duodenum. 



