CCELIAC ARTERY AND BRANCHES. 



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at 3', as proper hepatic artery to the liver; 4, superior pyloric artery ; 4', another pjloric 

 branch ; 5, placed on the main trunk of the vena portee at the place where the hepatic 

 artery and ductus communis choledochus are in front of it ; 6', branches of the vena 

 portae in the transverse fissure ; 6, gastro- duodenal artery ; b", its continuation as the 

 right gastro- epiploic ; 7, on the left crus of the diaphragm, the splenic artery ; 8, its 

 left gastio-epiploic branch proceeding round the great curvature of the stomach to com- 

 municate with the right gastro-epiploic artery ; both of these vessels are seen giving long 

 epiploic as well as gastric branches. 



Fig. 283. 



1. THE CORONARY ARTERY OF THE STOMACH, the smallest of the throe 

 visceral branches derived from the cceliac artsry, inclining upwards and to 

 the left side, reaches the cardiac orifice of the stomach, and then proceed in" 

 along the smaller curvature of the stomach, from left to right, gives branches 

 to both sides of that viscus, and iuosculates with the pyluric branch of the 

 hepatic artery. 



Where it first reaches the stomach, this artery sends upwards cesopliacjeal branches 

 which anastomose with the aortic oesophageal arteries. The branches to the stomach' 



