hepatic artery in dogs

An artery that supplies the liver. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hepatic artery is

An artery that supplies the liver. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the hepatic artery is

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

What the hepatic artery connects to

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

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hepatic artery. 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 arteria hepatica propria and arteria hepatica. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001193, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: portal triad.
• A kind of: artery.
• Supplies: liver.
• subtype: left hepatic artery, proper hepatic artery and right hepatic artery.

Questions

Where is the hepatic artery?

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

What does the hepatic artery connect to?

Part of: portal triad.

Is the hepatic artery 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.