Hepatic artery proper the left gastric artery, which is a branch of the celiac trunk. It subsequently bifurcates into the right and left hepatic arteries. Of note, the right and left hepatic arteries may demonstrate variant anatomy. A misplaced right hepatic artery may arise from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and a misplaced left hepatic artery may arise from the left gastric artery. The cystic artery generally comes from the right hepatic artery. Hepatic artery proper The hepatic artery proper (also proper hepatic artery) is the artery that supplies the liver and gallbladder. It raises from the common hepatic artery, a branch of
Nominalized adjective Nominalized adjective A nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. For example, in "the rich and the poor", the adjectives "rich" and "poor" function as nouns denoting people who are rich and poor respectively. The most common appearance of the nominalized adjective in English is when an adjective is used to indicate a collective group. This happens in the case where a phrase such as "the poor people" becomes "the poor". The adjective "poor" is nominalized, and the noun "people" disappears. Other adjectives commonly used in this way include "rich", "wealthy",