digestive tract in dogs

A tube extending from the mouth to the anus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the digestive tract is

A tube extending from the mouth to the anus. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the digestive tract is

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

What the digestive tract connects to

The atlas records 59 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of digestive system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the digestive tract. 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 gut, digestive tube, enteric tract, alimentary canal, alimentary tract and digestive canal, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001555, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: digestive system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: anus, ascending colon, buccopharyngeal membrane, caecum, colon and descending colon, and 43 more.
• develops into: foramen cecum of tongue, maxillary artery, premaxilla, tongue and upper lip.
• connects: mouth.
• Develops from: embryo.
• deep to: anus.

Questions

Where is the digestive tract?

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

What does the digestive tract connect to?

Part of: digestive system.

Is the digestive tract 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.