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A MANUAL OF ANATOMY 



and splenic. The pancreatic branches arise at intervals along the 

 superior border of the pancreas, which they enter. One of them, 

 known as the arteria pancreatica magna, enters the organ towards 

 its left end, and passes from left to right, lying a little above the 

 pancreatic duct. The left gastro- epiploic artery arises near the 

 spleen, and passes within the gastro-splenic omentum to the great 

 curvature of the stomach, along which it descends from left to right 



Gastro-duodenal Artery- 

 Vena Portae j Pyloric Artery 



Ductus Communis Cholcdochus 



Round Ligament of 

 Liver '■ 



Inferior Phrenic Arteries 



Cystic Artery 



Duodenum 



superior Pancreatico- 

 duodenal Artery 



Right Gastro-epiploic 

 Artery 



(Esophagus 



Coeliac Axis 

 / Gaslric Artery 



Hepatic Artery 



Splenic Artery 



Fig. 318. — The Arteries of the Stomach, Liver, and Spleen 

 (after Merkel). 



between the two layers of the gastro-colic omentum as far as the 

 centre, where it anastomoses with the right gastro-epiploic. It 

 furnishes gastric branches to the front and back of the stomach, 

 which anastomose with branches of the gastric artery, and 

 epiploic branches, which descend into the gastro-colic omentum, 

 these latter being long and slender. The vasa brevia arise from the 

 terminal part of the splenic and from its splenic branches. They 

 are about five in number, and, having passed within the gastro- 

 splenic omentum to the cardiac extremity of the stomach, they 



