Gastroepiploic artery is the name of two different arteries serving the stomach and greater omentum:
In Human anatomy, the stomach is a J-shaped hollow muscular organ of the Gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of Digestion, following The greater omentum (also the great omentum, omentum majus, gastrocolic omentum, or epiploön) is a large fold of Peritoneum that The left gastro-omental artery (or left gastroepiploic artery) the largest branch of the Splenic artery, runs from left to right about a finger’s breadth or more In Anatomy, the splenic artery (in the past called the lienal artery) is the Blood vessel that supplies oxygenated Blood to the Spleen The right gastro-omental artery (or right gastroepiploic artery) runs from right to left along the Greater curvature of the Stomach, between the layers In Anatomy, the gastroduodenal artery is a small Blood vessel in the Abdomen.
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