NCIt definition : An artery arising from the celiac trunk that supplies portions of the stomach, small
intestines, liver and gallbladder. It branches off to form the right gastric artery
and the gastroduodenal artery and continues distally as the proper hepatic artery,
whose branches give rise to the cystic artery, and the left and right hepatic arteries.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: An artery arising from the celiac trunk that supplies the liver and branches
to form the cystic, gastro-duodenalis and pyloric arteries.; NCI-GLOSS: The major blood vessel that carries blood to the liver.;