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Heart & Blood Vessels: Your Coronary Arteries. The heart receives its own supply of blood from the coronary arteries. Two major coronary arteries branch off from the aorta near the point where the aorta and the left ventricle meet. These arteries and their branches supply all parts of the heart muscle with blood. Left Main Coronary Artery (also called the left main trunk)
The splenic artery is the largest branch of the celiac trunk. You can see it's got this long tortuous course and it runs along the top of the pancreas. And you can see these little branches given off to the pancreas. And these little branches supply the neck, the body and the tail of the pancreas.