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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to both the
stomach and theliver .
Etymologies
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gastro- + hepatic
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Examples
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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.
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