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Encyclopedia > Celiac artery
Artery: Celiac artery
The celiac artery and its branches. (Celiac artery visibile at center.)
The celiac artery and its branches. (Lienal artery is an old term for splenic artery. The stomach is raised and inverted - compare with image above.)
Latin truncus celiacus, truncus coeliacus, arteria celiaca
Gray's subject #154 603
Source abdominal aorta
Branches left gastric artery
common hepatic artery
splenic artery
MeSH Celiac+Artery
Dorlands/Elsevier t_20/12825991

The celiac artery, also known as the celiac trunk, is the first major branch of the abdominal aorta and branches from the aorta around the level of the T12 vertebra in humans. It is one of three anterior branches of the abdominal aorta (the others are the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (650x669, 124 KB) FIG. 532 – The celiac artery and its branches Gray, Henry. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (700x745, 242 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Pancreas Spleen Duodenum Hepatic portal vein Wikipedia:Grays Anatomy images with missing articles 11 Abdominal aorta Hepatic... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... AORTA can also mean always-on real-time access, referring to WAN computer networks. ... The left gastric artery arises from the coeliac trunk, and runs along the superior portion of the lesser curvature of the stomach, while the right gastric artery supplies the inferior portion. ... Branches of the celiac artery - stomach in situ. ... Branches of the celiac artery. ... Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. ... Elseviers logo. ... AORTA can also mean always-on real-time access, referring to WAN computer networks. ... A diagram of a thoracic vertebra. ... The superior mesenteric artery arises from the anterior surface of the aorta, just inferior to the origin of the celiac trunk, and supplies the intestine from the duodenum and pancreas to the left colic flexure. ... In human anatomy, the inferior mesenteric artery, often abbreviated as IMA, supplies the large intestine from the left colic (or splenic) flexure to the upper part of the rectum, which includes the descending colon, the sigmoid colon, and part of the rectum. ...

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Region supplied

The celiac artery supplies oxygenated blood to the liver, stomach, abdominal oesophagus, spleen and the superior half of both the duodenum and the pancreas. These structures correspond to the embryonic foregut. (Similarly, the superior mesenteric artery and inferior mesenteric artery feed structures arising from the embryonic midgut and hindgut respectively. Note that these three anterior branches of the abdominal aorta are distinct and cannot substitute for one another, although there are limited connections between their terminal branches.) Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... The liver is an organ in some animals, including vertebrates (and therefore humans). ... It has been suggested that some sections of this article be split into a new article entitled Human stomach. ... The esophagus, oe/œsophagus*, or gullet is the muscular tube in vertebrates through which ingested food passes from the mouth area to the stomach. ... The spleen is an organ of the upper abdomen, where it functions in the destruction of old red blood cells and holding a reservoir of blood. ... In anatomy of the digestive system, the duodenum is a hollow jointed tube connecting the stomach to the jejunum. ... The pancreas is an organ in the digestive and endocrine system that serves two major functions: exocrine (producing pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes) and endocrine (producing several important hormones, including insulin). ... The foregut is the anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, or to the entrance of the bile duct. ... The midgut is the portion of the embryo from which most of the intestines are derived. ... Hindgut is the posterior (caudal) part of the alimentary canal. ...


The celiac artery is an essential source of blood, since the interconnections with the other major arteries of the gut are not sufficient to sustain adequate perfusion. Thus it cannot be safely ligated in a living person, and obstruction of the celiac artery will lead to necrosis of the structures it supplies. In physiology, perfusion is the process of nutritive delivery of arterial blood to a capillary bed in the biological tissue. ... Necrosis (in Greek Νεκρός = Death) is the name given to accidental death of cells and living tissue. ...


Branches

There are three main divisions of the celiac artery, and each in turn has its own named branches.

Artery Branches
left gastric artery esophageal branch, hepatic branch
common hepatic artery proper hepatic artery,right gastric artery, gastroduodenal artery
splenic artery dorsal pancreatic artery, short gastric arteries, left gastro-omental artery

The celiac artery may also give rise to the inferior phrenic arteries. The left gastric artery arises from the coeliac trunk, and runs along the superior portion of the lesser curvature of the stomach, while the right gastric artery supplies the inferior portion. ... Branches of the celiac artery - stomach in situ. ... The hepatic artery proper (also proper hepatic artery), arises from the common hepatic artery and joins the portal vein and the common bile duct to form the portal triad. ... The right gastric artery (pyloric artery) arises from the hepatic, above the pylorus, descends to the pyloric end of the stomach, and passes from right to left along its lesser curvature, supplying it with branches, and anastomosing with the left gastric artery. ... Branches of the celiac artery. ... Branches of the celiac artery. ... The pancreatic branches are numerous small vessels derived from the splenic artery as it runs behind the upper border of the pancreas, supplying its body and tail. ... The short gastric arteries (vasa brevia) consist of from five to seven small branches, which arise from the end of the lienal artery, and from its terminal divisions. ... 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 from the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, and anastomoses with the right gastroepiploic. ... The inferior phrenic arteries are two small vessels, which supply the diaphragm but present much variety in their origin. ...


Drainage

The celiac artery is the only major artery that nourishes the abdominal digestive organs that does not have a similarly-named vein. Section of an artery For other uses, see Artery (disambiguation). ... The gastrointestinal or digestive tract, also referred to as the GI tract or the alimentary canal or the gut, is the system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste. ...


Most blood returning from the digestive organs (including from the area of distribution of the celiac artery) is diverted to the liver via the portal venous system for further processing and detoxification in the liver before returning to the systemic circulation via the hepatic veins. In human anatomy, the portal venous system is the system of veins that drain into the portal vein. ... Systemic circulation is the portion of the cardiovascular system which carries oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the body, and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart. ... Superior vena cava, inferior vena cava (IVC), azygos vein and their tributaries. ...


In contrast to the drainage of midgut and hindgut structures by the superior mesenteric vein and inferior mesenteric vein respectively, venous return from the celiac artery is through either the splenic vein emptying into the hepatic portal vein or via smaller tributaries of the portal venous system. The portal vein and its tributaries. ... The portal vein and its tributaries. ... The portal vein and its tributaries - the largest are the superior mesenteric vein and splenic vein. ... The portal vein is a major vein in the human body draining blood from the digestive system and its associated glands. ...


Notably, the splenic vein carries bilirubin (the waste product of hemoglobin metabolism) to the liver for excretion via the bile duct. Bilirubin is a yellow breakdown product of heme catabolism. ... 3-dimensional structure of hemoglobin. ... X-Ray of the bile duct during a laprascopic cholecystectomy A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile. ...


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  Results from FactBites:
 
Celiac artery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (390 words)
The stomach is raised and inverted - compare with celiac artery branches - stomach in situ.
The celiac artery, also known as the celiac trunk, is the first major branch of the abdominal aorta.
Blood from the celiac artery is drained by the splenic vein and a number of smaller vessels from the stomach.
VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta. Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body. (3511 words)
Of the visceral branches, the celiac artery and the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries are unpaired, while the suprarenals, renals, internal spermatics, and ovarian are paired.
gastrica sinistra; gastric or coronary artery), the smallest of the three branches of the celiac artery, passes upward and to the left, posterior to the omental bursa, to the cardiac orifice of the stomach.
The hepatic artery, in its course along the right border of the lesser omentum, is in relation with the common bile-duct and portal vein, the duct lying to the right of the artery, and the vein behind.
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