Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining both to the stomach and to the liver: as, the gastrohepatic omentum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric.

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  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to both the stomach and the liver.

Etymologies

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gastro- +‎ hepatic

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Examples

  • The lesser omentum (omentum minus; small omentum; gastrohepatic omentum) is the duplicature which extends to the liver from the lesser curvature of the stomach and the commencement of the duodenum.

    XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen 1918

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