THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY 



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has a tortuous course along the upper border of the pancreas and gives off 

 numerous branches to that viscus. On the anterior surface of the left kidney 

 it turns forwards between the two layers of the lieno-renal ligament and ends 

 in the spleen. - > 



The short gastric and the left gaslro-epiploic arise from the splenic near its 

 termination and run forwards in the gastro-splenic ligament to the greater 

 curvature. The short gastric arteries are distributed to the fundus ; the 

 left gastro-epiploic passes to the right along the greater curvature and anasto- 

 moses with the right gastro-epiploic. 



The stomach, therefore, is supplied directly from the cceliac artery by the 

 left gastric (coronary), and indirectly by the right gastric and gastro-epiploic 

 arteries from the hepatic, and the short gastric and left gastro-epiploic arteries 



CEscphageal branch 



Left gastric artery 

 Left inferior phrenic artery \ 

 Cceliac glands 



Lesser omer.tum, cut edges 



Hepatic artery .,. 



Coronary glands 

 / Supra-pancreatic glands 

 / Short gastric arteries 



Splenic 

 branches 



Left gastro- 

 epiploic artery 



Right gastro- 

 epiploic artery 

 Gastro-epiploic gland 



Greater omentum, cut edges 

 FIG. 95. The Arteries and Lymph Glands of the Stomach. The course 

 of the lymph vessels is indicated by the arrows. 



from the splenic (Fig. 95). The branches'which these vessels give off supply 

 the adjoining areas on both surfaces of the stomach and run at right angles 

 to its axis. Incisions in the stomach wall, for the purpose of excising gastric 

 ulcers, are made parallel to the vessels and, therefore, at right angles to the 

 long axis of the stomach. 



The gastro-epiploic arteries lie between the two anterior layers 

 of the greater omentum. They are distinctly tortuous and are 

 placed about half an inch from the greater curvature. By this 

 arrangement the vessels are not subjected to pressure or 

 stretching when the stomach becomes distended. 



