abdomen in dogs

The subdivision of the vertebrate body between the thorax and pelvis. The ventral part of the abdomen contains the abdominal cavity and visceral organs. The dorsal part includes the abdominal section of the vertebral column. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the abdomen is

The subdivision of the vertebrate body between the thorax and pelvis. The ventral part of the abdomen contains the abdominal cavity and visceral organs. The dorsal part includes the abdominal section of the vertebral column. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the abdomen is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the abdomen connects to

The atlas records 35 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of abdominal segment of trunk and trunk.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: splanchnic nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as abdominopelvic region, abdominopelvis, adult abdomen, belly and celiac region. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000916, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdominal segment of trunk and trunk.
• A kind of: organism subdivision.
• contains: abdomen blood vessel, abdomen connective tissue, abdomen element, abdomen musculature, abdomen nerve and abdominal cavity, and 21 more.
• overlaps: abdominal aorta.
• left of: left adrenal gland.
• develops into: nephron.
• right of: right adrenal gland.
• Innervated by: splanchnic nerve.

Questions

Where is the abdomen?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the abdomen connect to?

Part of: abdominal segment of trunk and trunk.

Is the abdomen the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.