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right gastroepiploic (gastroomental) artery
Origin: gastroduodenal artery
Distribution:
1) stomach along greater curvature & walls of stomach
2) greater omentum
Anastomoses:
1) left gastroepiploic artery
2) right gastric artery
3) left gastric artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: right gastroepiploic (gastroomental) artery
ORIGIN: gastoduodenal artery
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium