THE CCELTAC AXIS. 



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of that viseus, and finally inosculating with the pyloric branch of the hepatic 

 artery. 



Where it first reaches the stomach, this artery sends upwards ozsophageal 

 branches, which anastomose with the aortic oesophageal arteries. The branches to 

 the stomach, descending on the front and back of the organ, anastomose with 

 branches from the arterial arch on the great curvature. 



Fig. 372. THE ARTERIES OF THE STOMACH, LIVER, AND OMENTUM. (Tiedemann. ) i 



The liver is turned up so as to show its lower surface with the portal fissure, and the vessels and 

 ducts entering it : a, right lobe of liver ; b, left lobe ; c, gall-bladder ; c f , hepatic ducts ; c", common 

 bile-duct ; d, umbilical fissure and round ligament ; e, cardiac orifice of stomach ; /, on the great 

 curvature of the stomach near its cardiac end, points to the spleen ; g, pylorus ; h, duodenum ; i, i, 

 great omentum ; k, Jc, coils of small intestine in the lower part of the abdomeii ; 1, upon the trunk of 

 the abdominal aorta, below the root of the inferior phrenic arteries, and above the coeliac axis ; 2, 

 placed on the meeting of the crura of the diaphragm, coronary artery of the stomach ; 2', the same 

 artery proceeding round the small curvature of the stomach and ending by inosculating with the 

 pyloric ; 3, the main hepatic artery, continued at 3', as proper hepatic artery to the liver ; 4, pyloric 

 artery ; 4', another pyloric branch ; 5, trunk of portal vein ; 5', 5', 5', its branches in the transverse 

 fissure ; 6, gastro- duodenal artery ; 6', 6', its continuation as right gastro-epiploic ; 7, on the left crus 

 of the diaphragm, splenic artery ; 8, its left gastro-epiploic branch, proceeding round the great 

 curvature of the stomach to communicate with the right gastro-epiploic artery ; both of these vessels 

 are seen giving long epiploic as well as gastric branches. 



