cardiovascular system in dogs

Anatomical system that has as its parts the heart and blood vessels. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cardiovascular system is

Anatomical system that has as its parts the heart and blood vessels. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the dog.

Where the cardiovascular system is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the cardiovascular system connects to

The atlas records 23 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of circulatory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cardiovascular system. 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 CV system and Herz und Gefaesssystem. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004535, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the cardiovascular system?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the cardiovascular system connect to?

Part of: circulatory system.

Is the cardiovascular system 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.