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
Proper adjective Proper adjective In English orthography, the term proper adjective is sometimes applied to adjectives that take initial capital letters, and the term common adjective to those that do not. For example, a person from Boston is Bostonian. "Bostonian" is a proper adjective. These terms are used informally only; they are not used by grammarians or linguists. The term "proper noun" denotes a noun that, grammatically speaking, identifies a specific unique entity; for example, "England" is a proper noun, because it is a name for a specific country, whereas "dog" is not a proper noun; it is, rather, a "common noun"