lung in dogs

Respiration organ that develops as an outpocketing of the esophagus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lung is

Respiration organ that develops as an outpocketing of the esophagus. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the lung is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the lung connects to

The atlas records 43 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity and pair of lungs.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: bronchial artery and pulmonary artery. Venous drainage: pulmonary vein.

Also called

Also recorded as pulmo. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002048, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity and pair of lungs.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, respiration organ and thoracic cavity element.
• Adjacent to: visceral pleura.
• contains: bronchus, alveolar system, alveolus of lung, blood-air barrier, bronchiole and lobar bronchus, and 17 more.
• contributes to morphology of: respiratory system, alveolar system, lobe of lung, lung blood vessel, lung connective tissue and lung epithelium, and 1 more.
• Supplied by: bronchial artery and pulmonary artery.
• subtype: left lung and right lung.
• Develops from: lung bud.

Questions

Where is the lung?

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the lung connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity and pair of lungs.

Is the lung 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.