Right renal artery
Arteria renalis dextri
Definition
The right renal artery is longer than the left renal artery, on account of the position of the aorta.
The right renal artery passes behind the inferior vena cava, the right renal vein, the head of the pancreas, and the descending part of the duodenum.
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/).
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