1. arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein; [syn: left gastric vein, vena gastrica sinistra]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
left gastric vein
n 1: arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia; runs
in the lesser omentum; empties into the portal vein [syn:
left gastric vein, vena gastrica sinistra]