Common Hepatic Artery

**Semantic type:** Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component

**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.

**Synonyms:** - HEPATIC ARTERY - hepatic artery