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| Curvatures of the stomach | |
|---|---|
 Outline of stomach, showing its anatomical landmarks | |
| Details | |
| Artery | Greater: short gastric (upper part), left gastroepiploic (middle) Lesser: right gastric artery and left gastric artery |
| Vein | Lesser: right gastric vein and left gastric vein |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | curvatura major gastris, curvatura minor gastris |
| TA98 | A05.5.01.004 |
| TA2 | 2904 |
| FMA | 14574 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
The curvatures of the stomach are the long, convex, lateral surface, and the shorter, concave, medial surface of the stomach, which are referred to as the greater and lesser curvatures, respectively. The greater curvature, which begins at the cardiac notch, and arches backwards, passing inferiorly to the left,[1] is four or five times longer than the lesser curvature,[2] which attaches to the hepatogastric ligament and is supplied by the left gastric artery and right gastric branch of the hepatic artery.[1]
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