paraaortic body in dogs

A chromaffin paraganglion located at the bifurcation of the aorta or at the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the paraaortic body is

A chromaffin paraganglion located at the bifurcation of the aorta or at the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the paraaortic body is

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

What the paraaortic body connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of anatomical system and endocrine system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the paraaortic body. 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 organ of Zuckerkandl, paraganglion of Zuckerkandl, para-aortic body and paraganglia of Zuckerkandl. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001237, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical system and endocrine system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ.

Questions

Where is the paraaortic body?

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

What does the paraaortic body connect to?

Part of: anatomical system and endocrine system.

Is the paraaortic body 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.