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VENA GASTRICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of several veins draining the stomach walls
Synonyms:
gastric vein; vena gastrica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vena gastrica" is a kind of...):
vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vena gastrica"):
left gastric vein; vena gastrica sinistra (arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein)
pyloric vein; right gastric vein; vena gastrica-dextra (receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein)
Holonyms ("vena gastrica" is a part of...):
breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)
