vena coronaria ventriculi


left gas·tric vein

[TA] arises from a union of veins from both surfaces of the cardia of the stomach and an esophageal tributary from the cardiac portion of the esophagus; it runs in the lesser omentum and empties into the portal vein.
See also: esophageal veins.
Synonym(s): vena gastrica sinistra [TA], coronary vein, vena coronaria ventriculi

vena coronaria ventriculi

(1) An obsolete term that formerly viewed the right and left gastric veins as a single functional unit. 
(2) Left gastric vein; vena gastrica sinistra [NA6].