Body of stomach
Corpus gastris
- Latin synonym: Corpus gastricus
Definition
A plane passing through the angular incisure on the lesser curvature and the left limit of the opposed dilatation on the greater curvature divides the stomach into a left portion or body of stomach and a right or pyloric part.
The fundus of stomach is the posterosuperior left part of stomach, and is marked off from of the body of stomach by a plane passing horizontally through the cardiac orifice.
References
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
