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Abstract

Five adult healthy Barbados Black Belly sheep of either sex were used to demonstrate the arterial supply of the stomach. Immediately after slaughtering of sheep, the thoracic part of the aorta (just prior to its passage through the hiatus aorticus of the diaphragm) was injected with gum milk latex (colored red) with carmine. The study revealed that the different parts of stomach of the sheep were supplied via the branches of the celiac artery. The rumen was richly supplied by the right and left ruminal arteries as well as ruminal branches from the reticular artery. The reticulum was supplied with reticular branches of reticular and accessory reticular arteries. The omasum was vascularized by omasal branches of the left gastric artery. While the abomasum received its entire arterial supply from abomasal branches of the left gastric, left gastroepiploic, right gastric and right gastroepiploic arteries. Rumenotomy could be done in the left aspect of the dorsal ruminal sac, between the area of anastomoses between the ventral ruminal branches of the left ruminal artery as well as the cranial branches of both the left dorsal and left ventral coronaries arteries of the right ruminal artery as the blood supply was minimal, so that the incidence of bleeding will be low.