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left gastric vein

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left gastric vein

noun
arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein 
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left gastric vein n.
A vein that arises from a union of veins from both surfaces of the gastric cardia and empties into the portal vein.

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