fibrous pericardium in dogs

Membrane organ which is attached to the pericardial sac proper and the central tendon of diaphragm and is continuous with the pretracheal fascia.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the fibrous pericardium is

Membrane organ which is attached to the pericardial sac proper and the central tendon of diaphragm and is continuous with the pretracheal fascia.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the fibrous pericardium is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the fibrous pericardium connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of pericardium.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the fibrous pericardium. 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 fibrous portion of pericardium and pericardium fibrosum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002359, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the fibrous pericardium?

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the fibrous pericardium connect to?

Part of: pericardium.

Is the fibrous pericardium 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.