left cardiac atrium in dogs

A cardiac atrium that is in the left side of the heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins, In mammals this is pumped into the left ventricle, via the Mitral valve. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the left cardiac atrium is

A cardiac atrium that is in the left side of the heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins, In mammals this is pumped into the left ventricle, via the Mitral valve. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the left cardiac atrium is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the left cardiac atrium connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, heart and organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the left cardiac atrium. 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 atrium sinistrum, cardiac left atrium, heart left atrium, left atrium, left atrium of heart and left cardiac atrium. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002079, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, heart and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and cardiac atrium.
• Connected to: pulmonary vein.
• Adjacent to: interatrial septum.
• flows to: heart left ventricle and pulmonary vein.
• contains: left atrium auricular region and mitral valve.
• left of: heart.
• paired with: right cardiac atrium.

Questions

Where is the left cardiac atrium?

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the left cardiac atrium connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, heart and organ.

Is the left cardiac atrium 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.