hepatic vein in dogs
Vein that carries blood away from the liver[ZFA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the hepatic vein is
Vein that carries blood away from the liver[ZFA]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the hepatic vein is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular, digestive and endocrine systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the hepatic vein connects to
The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of abdomen and vasculature of liver.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: inferior vena cava.
Also called
Also recorded as liver vein, vein of liver, vena hepatica, hepatic veins and venae hepaticae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001143, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: abdomen and vasculature of liver.
- A kind of: abdomen blood vessel, liver blood vessel and vein.
- Drains: liver.
- subtype: accessory hepatic vein, left hepatic vein, middle hepatic vein and right hepatic vein.
- drains to: inferior vena cava.
Questions
Where is the hepatic vein?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular, digestive and endocrine systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the hepatic vein connect to?
Part of: abdomen and vasculature of liver.
Is the hepatic 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.