hepatobiliary system in dogs

The part of the digestive system that contains the liver and the biliary system. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hepatobiliary system is

The part of the digestive system that contains the liver and the biliary system. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the dog.

Where the hepatobiliary system is

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

What the hepatobiliary system connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical system and digestive system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hepatobiliary system. 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 hepaticobiliary system, liver and biliary system and liver/biliary system. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002423, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical system and digestive system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: biliary system, liver and gallbladder.
• contributes to morphology of: biliary tree and liver.
• develops into: common hepatic duct.

Questions

Where is the hepatobiliary system?

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

What does the hepatobiliary system connect to?

Part of: anatomical system and digestive system.

Is the hepatobiliary system 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.