bile duct in dogs
Any of the ducts that form the biliary tree, carrying bile from the liver to the small intestine. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the bile duct is
Any of the ducts that form the biliary tree, carrying bile from the liver to the small intestine. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the bile duct is
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the bile duct connects to
The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of biliary tree, digestive system and organ.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the bile duct. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as bile tube, biliary duct, gall duct and hepatic duct. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002394, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: biliary tree, digestive system and organ.
- A kind of: anatomical structure.
- subtype: extrahepatic bile duct, extrahepatic part of hepatic duct, hepatic duct, hepatopancreatic ampulla and intrahepatic bile duct.
- contains: bile canaliculus, bile duct epithelium and biliary ductule.
- contributes to morphology of: biliary tree.
- Develops from: hepatic diverticulum.
- composed of: biliary tree.
- connects: choledocho-duodenal junction.
Questions
Where is the bile duct?
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the bile duct connect to?
Part of: biliary tree, digestive system and organ.
Is the bile duct 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.