renal vein in dogs
Either of the pair of major vessels which arise from the renal hilus and return blood from the kidneys, suprarenal gland and the ureter to the inferior vena cava. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the renal vein is
Either of the pair of major vessels which arise from the renal hilus and return blood from the kidneys, suprarenal gland and the ureter to the inferior vena cava. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the renal vein is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the renal vein connects to
The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of vein.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: inferior vena cava.
Also called
Also recorded as kidney vein, renal venous tree, vein of kidney and venae renales. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001140, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: vein.
- Drains: kidney.
- subtype: left renal vein and right renal vein.
- drains to: inferior vena cava.
Questions
Where is the renal vein?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the renal vein connect to?
A kind of: vein.
Is the renal 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.