liver lobule in dogs

The polygonal structure of the liver that consists of hepatocytes radiating outward from a hepatic vein. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the liver lobule is

The polygonal structure of the liver that consists of hepatocytes radiating outward from a hepatic vein. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the liver lobule is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the 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 liver lobule connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of liver parenchyma, organ and liver.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the liver lobule. 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 lobule, lobuli hepatici, lobulus hepaticus, lobules of liver and lobuli hepatis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004647, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: liver parenchyma, organ and liver.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• Adjacent to: interlobular stroma of liver.
• contributes to morphology of: liver parenchyma, bile canaliculus, hepatic sinusoid, intralobular bile duct and liver perisinusoidal space.
• contains: bile canaliculus, central vein of liver, hepatic sinusoid, intralobular bile duct and liver perisinusoidal space.
• overlaps: hepatic acinus.

Questions

Where is the liver lobule?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the 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 liver lobule connect to?

Part of: liver parenchyma, organ and liver.

Is the liver lobule 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.