pericardium in dogs
The combination of pericardial sac (a double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels) plus fibrous pericardium. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the pericardium is
The combination of pericardial sac (a double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels) plus fibrous pericardium. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.
Where the pericardium is
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the pericardium connects to
The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of heart plus pericardium.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pericardium. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002407, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: heart plus pericardium.
- A kind of: anatomical entity and anatomical structure.
- contains: fibrous pericardium and pericardial sac.
- surrounds: myocardium.
- subtype: outflow tract pericardium.
- contributes to morphology of: visceral serous pericardium.
Questions
Where is the pericardium?
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the pericardium connect to?
Part of: heart plus pericardium.
Is the pericardium 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.