pulmonary trunk in dogs

An arterial trunk which is continuous with the heart and branches into the pulmonary arteries. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pulmonary trunk is

An arterial trunk which is continuous with the heart and branches into the pulmonary arteries. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the pulmonary trunk is

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

What the pulmonary trunk connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of cardiovascular system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pulmonary trunk. 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 pulmonary artery (trunk), trunk of pulmonary arterial tree and main pulmonary artery. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002333, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cardiovascular system.
• A kind of: artery and vascular system.
• Connected to: heart right ventricle, left pulmonary artery and right pulmonary artery.
• Adjacent to: aortico-pulmonary spiral septum.
• Continuous with: heart and pulmonary artery.

Questions

Where is the pulmonary trunk?

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

What does the pulmonary trunk connect to?

Part of: cardiovascular system.

Is the pulmonary trunk 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.