peritoneum in dogs

A serous membrane that lines the peritoneal cavity[VHOG,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the peritoneum is

A serous membrane that lines the peritoneal cavity[VHOG,modified]. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the peritoneum is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the peritoneum connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of abdominal wall.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the peritoneum. 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 peritonaeum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002358, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdominal wall.
• A kind of: organ, serous membrane and viscus.
• contains: gubernaculum (male or female), ovarian bursa, parietal peritoneum, peritoneal vaginal process, retroperitoneal fat pad and visceral peritoneum.
• subtype: mesentery of small intestine, ovarian bursa and peritoneal vaginal process.
• Develops from: mesoderm.

Questions

Where is the peritoneum?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the peritoneum connect to?

Part of: abdominal wall.

Is the peritoneum 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.