pulmonary vein in dogs

Pulmonary veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the lungs to the heart[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pulmonary vein is

Pulmonary veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the lungs to the heart[GO]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the pulmonary vein is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the pulmonary vein connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of cardiovascular system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pulmonary vein. 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 venous tree organ part and venae pulmonales. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002016, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cardiovascular system.
• A kind of: blood vessel, vascular system and vein.
• Connected to: left cardiac atrium.
• Drains: lung.
• flows to: left cardiac atrium, left lung and right lung.
• subtype: left pulmonary vein and right pulmonary vein.
• Develops from: truncus arteriosus.

Questions

Where is the pulmonary vein?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the pulmonary vein connect to?

Part of: cardiovascular system.

Is the pulmonary vein 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.