Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.
The celiac (or coeliac) artery also known as the celiac trunk or truncus coeliacus is the first major branch of the abdominal aorta. It is 1.25 cm in length in a horizontal direction.Branching from the aorta anterior to the upper border of L1 vertebra (almost immediately after entering the abdominal cavity through the diaphragm at T12) in humans it is one of three anterior/ midline branches of the abdominal aorta (the others are the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries).
