hepatic portal vein in dogs

A portal vein that transports nutrients from the digestive tract to the liver[Kardong]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hepatic portal vein is

A portal vein that transports nutrients from the digestive tract to the liver[Kardong]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the hepatic portal vein is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the hepatic portal vein connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of cardiovascular system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hepatic portal vein. 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 hepatic portal tree, liver portal vein, portal vein of liver, HPV, portal vein and primary hepatic portal vein, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001639, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cardiovascular system.
• A kind of: portal vein and vasculature.
• Connected to: splenic vein and superior mesenteric vein.
• Supplies: liver.
• overlaps: liver.

Questions

Where is the hepatic portal vein?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the hepatic portal vein connect to?

Part of: cardiovascular system.

Is the hepatic portal vein 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.