Splenic artery

Celiac trunk

The arteria splenica or arteria lienalis (from Latin lien or Greek splen " spleen "; "splenic artery") is an artery in the abdominal cavity and one of the three main branches of the celiac trunk .

The splenic artery divides into several branches:

• Arteria pancreatica dorsalis (back pancreatic artery )
• Arteria pancreatica magna (large pancreatic artery )
• Arteriae gastricae breves (short gastric arteries)
• Arteria gastrica posterior (artery of the gastric posterior wall)
• Arteria gastroomentalis left (or A. gastroepiploica sinistra) (left gastric reticulum artery)

The splenic artery supplies not only the spleen but also the stomach, the pancreas and the large network .

In ruminants , the splenic artery also gives off the two main vessels of the rumen - arteria ruminalis dextra and sinistra .

literature

• Theodor H. Schiebler, Walter Schmidt, Karl Zilles: Anatomie. Cytology, histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic human anatomy. Taking into account the item catalog. 7th, corrected edition. Springer, Berlin et al. 1997, ISBN 3-540-61856-2 .
• Uwe Gille: Cardiovascular and immune system, Angiologia. In: Franz-Viktor Salomon, Hans Geyer, Uwe Gille (Ed.): Anatomy for veterinary medicine. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Enke, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-1075-1 , pp. 404-463.