gallbladder in dogs

An organ that aids digestion and stores bile produced by the liver[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gallbladder is

An organ that aids digestion and stores bile produced by the liver[WP]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the gallbladder is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the gallbladder connects to

The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, biliary system and hepatobiliary system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gallbladder. 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 cholecyst, gall bladder, vesica biliaris and vesica fellea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002110, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdomen, biliary system and hepatobiliary system.
• A kind of: abdominal viscera, anatomical structure, cavitated compound organ and digestive system element.
• contains: epithelium of gall bladder, gallbladder lamina propria, gallbladder serosa, gallbladder smooth muscle and infundibulum of gallbladder.
• contributes to morphology of: biliary tree, epithelium of gall bladder and infundibulum of gallbladder.
• flows to: duodenum and liver.
• located in: coelemic cavity lumen.
• Continuous with: cystic duct.

Questions

Where is the gallbladder?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the gallbladder connect to?

Part of: abdomen, biliary system and hepatobiliary system.

Is the gallbladder 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.