CELIAC TRUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celiac trunk mean? 

• CELIAC TRUNK (noun)
  The noun CELIAC TRUNK has 1 sense:

1. an artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery

  Familiarity information: CELIAC TRUNK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELIAC TRUNK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria celiaca; celiac artery; celiac trunk; truncus celiacus

Hypernyms ("celiac trunk" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

 Context examples 

An artery arising from the celiac trunk that supplies the liver and branches to form the cystic, gastro-duodenalis and pyloric arteries.

(Hepatic artery, NCI Thesaurus)