Left gastroepiploic artery

Left gastroepiploic artery
The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Left gastroepiploic artery visible at lower right.)
Right and left gastroomental is at #4.
Details
Source	Splenic artery
Vein	Left gastroepiploic vein
Supplies	Greater curvature of the stomach
Identifiers
Latin	Arteria gastroomentalis sinistra, arteria gastroepiploica sinistra
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12154379
TA	A12.2.12.047
FMA	14796
Anatomical terminology []

The left gastroepiploic artery (or left gastro-omental 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 (a branch of the right gastro-duodenal artery originating from the hepatic branch of the Coeliac trunk).

In its course it distributes:

Branches of the celiac artery.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)