kidney in dogs
A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the kidney is
A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the kidney is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the kidney connects to
The atlas records 60 typed relationships for it, across 13 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, anatomical entity and upper urinary tract.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: renal artery. Venous drainage: renal vein.
Also called
Also recorded as reniculate kidney. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002113, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: abdomen, anatomical entity and upper urinary tract.
- A kind of: abdomen element, anatomical structure and cavitated compound organ.
- Attaches to: lieno-renal ligament.
- contains: collecting duct of renal tubule, comma-shaped body, cortex of kidney, head kidney, inner medulla of kidney and kidney arterial blood vessel, and 23 more.
- contributes to morphology of: renal system, collecting duct of renal tubule, cortex of kidney, kidney capsule, kidney corticomedullary boundary and kidney epithelium, and 5 more.
- subtype: adult mammalian kidney, left kidney, mesonephros, metanephros, pronephros and right kidney.
- Develops from: kidney mesenchyme.
- bounding layer of: kidney capsule.
Questions
Where is the kidney?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the kidney connect to?
Part of: abdomen, anatomical entity and upper urinary tract.
Is the kidney 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.