Cardiac notch of stomach

Cardiac stomach
	Outline of stomach, showing its anatomical landmarks (cardiac notch not labeled, but visible at top center, as the indentation to the left of the fundus)
Details
Latin	Incisura cardialis, incisura cardiaca
Identifiers
Dorlands; /Elsevier	i_05/12447271
TA	Lua error in Module:Wikidata at line 744: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
TH	{{#property:P1694}}
TE	{{#property:P1693}}
FMA	{{#property:P1402}}
	Anatomical terminology [[[d:Lua error in Module:Wikidata at line 863: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).\|edit on Wikidata]]]

The right margin of the oesophagus is continuous with the lesser curvature of the stomach, while the left margin joins the greater curvature at an acute angle, termed the cardiac notch (or cardial notch).

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

stomach at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (stomachinside)

This human digestive system article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.