The veins end in the lienal and superior mesenteric.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2g. The Small Intestine] Reference

Its veins open into the lienal and superior mesenteric veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference

The lienal vein is of large size, but is not tortuous like the artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

Below, it is in relation to the upper border of the pancreas, and the lienal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

Behind the neck of the pancreas it unites with the lienal vein to form the portal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

—The lienal artery is remarkable for its large size in proportion to the size of the organ, and also for its tortuous course.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference

It accompanies the lienal artery to the spleen, giving off, in its course, subsidiary plexuses along the various branches of the artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 1F. The Great Plexuses of the Sympathetic System] Reference

—The arteries of the pancreas are derived from the lienal, and the pancreaticoduodenal branches of the hepatic and superior mesenteric.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference

The lienal plexus (plexus lienalis; splenic plexus) is formed by branches from the celiac plexus, the left celiac ganglion, and from the right vagus nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 1F. The Great Plexuses of the Sympathetic System] Reference

It arises from the front of the aorta, about 1.25 cm. below the celiac artery, and is crossed at its origin by the lienal vein and the neck of the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

The pancreatic veins (vv. pancreaticæ) consist of several small vessels which drain the body and tail of the pancreas, and open into the trunk of the lienal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

The left is somewhat higher than the right; it lies behind the left renal vein, the body of the pancreas and the lienal vein, and is crossed by the inferior mesenteric vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

The pancreatic branches (rami pancreatici) are numerous small vessels derived from the lienal as it runs behind the upper border of the pancreas, supplying its body and tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

It supplies both these organs, and anastomoses with the inferior pancreaticoduodenal branch of the superior mesenteric artery, and with the pancreatic branches of the lienal artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

The Hepatic Artery (a. hepatica) in the adult is intermediate in size between the left gastric and lienal; in the fetus, it is the largest of the three branches of the celiac artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

A somewhat quadrilateral field, about the middle of the anterior surface, marks the site of contact with the body of the pancreas, on the deep surface of which are the lienal vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3b. The Urinary Organs] Reference

The short gastric arteries (aa. gastricæ breves; vasa brevia) consist of from five to seven small branches, which arise from the end of the lienal artery, and from its terminal divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

Here it distributes branches to the esophagus, which anastomose with the aortic esophageal arteries; others supply the cardiac part of the stomach, anastomosing with branches of the lienal artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

—The arteries supplying the stomach are: the left gastric, the right gastric and right gastroepiploic branches of the hepatic, and the left gastroepiploic and short gastric branches of the lienal.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach] Reference

From these the veins arise, and pursue a straight course downward, between the tubules, to the submucous tissue; they end either in the lienal and superior mesenteric veins, or directly in the portal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach] Reference

The right gastroepiploic artery (a. gastroepiploica dextra) runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, anastomosing with the left gastroepiploic branch of the lienal artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

A considerable plexus accompanies the gastroduodenal artery and is continued as the inferior gastric plexus on the right gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach, where it unites with offshoots from the lienal plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 1F. The Great Plexuses of the Sympathetic System] Reference

The superior mesenteric artery passes down in front of the left half across the uncinate process; the superior mesenteric vein runs upward on the right side of the artery and, behind the neck, joins with the lienal vein to form the portal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference

It commences on the right in the omental tuberosity, and is in relation with the celiac artery, from which the hepatic artery courses to the right just above the gland, while the lienal artery runs toward the left in a groove along this border.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference

One, the phrenicolienal ligament, is derived from the peritoneum, where the wall of the general peritoneal cavity comes into contact with the omental bursa between the left kidney and the spleen; the lienal vessels pass between its two layers (Fig. 1039).    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference

The short gastric veins (vv. gastricæ breves), four or five in number, drain the fundus and left part of the greater curvature of the stomach, and pass between the two layers of the gastrolienal ligament to end in the lienal vein or in one of its large tributaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

Below, these branches are collected into a single cord, which runs along the back of the esophagus enters the abdomen, and is distributed to the postero-inferior surface of the stomach, joining the left side of the celiac plexus, and sending filaments to the lienal plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 5j. The Vagus Nerve] Reference

This vein lies to the left of its artery, and ascends behind the peritoneum and in front of the left Psoas major; it then passes behind the body of the pancreas and opens into the lienal vein; sometimes it ends in the angle of union of the lienal and superior mesenteric veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

The portal vein (vena portæ) is about 8 cm. in length, and is formed at the level of the second lumbar vertebra by the junction of the superior mesenteric and lienal veins, the union of these veins taking place in front of the inferior vena cava and behind the neck of the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

The left gastroepiploic artery (a. gastroepiploica sinistra) the largest branch of the lienal, runs from left to right about a finger’s breadth or more from the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, and anastomoses with the right gastroepiploic.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

—The abdominal aorta is covered, anteriorly, by the lesser omentum and stomach, behind which are the branches of the celiac artery and the celiac plexus; below these, by the lienal vein, the pancreas, the left renal vein, the inferior part of the duodenum, the mesentery, and aortic plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

The other fold, the gastrolienal ligament, is also formed of two layers, derived from the general cavity and the omental respectively, where they meet between the spleen and stomach (Fig. 1039); the short gastric and left gastroepiploic branches of the lienal artery run between its two layers.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference

The smaller veins unite to form larger ones; these do not accompany the arteries, but soon enter the trabecular sheaths of the capsule, and by their junction form six or more branches, which emerge from the hilum, and, uniting, constitute the lienal vein, the largest radicle of the portal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference

The left gastroepiploic vein (v. gastroepiploica sinistra) receives branches from the antero-superior and postero-inferior surfaces of the stomach and from the greater omentum; it runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach and ends in the commencement of the lienal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins] Reference

Its anterior surface has two areas: an upper one, covered by the peritoneum of the omental bursa, which separates it from the cardiac end of the stomach, and sometimes from the superior extremity of the spleen; and a lower one, which is in contact with the pancreas and lienal artery, and is therefore not covered by the peritoneum.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems] Reference

It passes horizontally to the left side, behind the stomach and the omental bursa of the peritoneum, and along the upper border of the pancreas, accompanied by the lienal vein, which lies below it; it crosses in front of the upper part of the left kidney, and, on arriving near the spleen, divides into branches, some of which enter the hilus of that organ between the two layers of the phrenicolienal ligament to be distributed to the tissues of the spleen; some are given to the pancreas, while others pass to the greater curvature of the stomach between the layers of the gastrolienal ligament.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference

The omental bursa, therefore, consists of a series of pouches or recesses to which the following terms are applied: (1) the vestibule, a narrow channel continued from the epiploic foramen, over the head of the pancreas to the gastropancreatic fold; this fold extends from the omental tuberosity of the pancreas to the right side of the fundus of the stomach, and contains the left gastric artery and coronary vein; (2) the superior omental recess, between the caudate lobe of the liver and the diaphragm; (3) the lienal recess, between the spleen and the stomach; (4) the inferior omental recess, which comprises the remainder of the bursa.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen] Reference

Its nerves are filaments from the lienal plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference