spleen in dogs

The organ that functions to filter blood and to store red corpuscles and platelets. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the spleen is

The organ that functions to filter blood and to store red corpuscles and platelets. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the spleen is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the lymphatic & immune system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the spleen connects to

The atlas records 28 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, hematopoietic system and immune system.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: splenic artery.

Also called

Also recorded as lien. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002106, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdomen, hematopoietic system and immune system.
• A kind of: abdominal viscera, hemopoietic organ and immune organ.
• Attaches to: lieno-renal ligament.
• contains: hilum of spleen, marginal zone of spleen, spleen B cell corona, spleen capsule, spleen central arteriole and spleen germinal center, and 6 more.
• contributes to morphology of: red pulp of spleen, spleen capsule, spleen trabecular artery, spleen trabecular vein and white pulp of spleen.
• Develops from: spleen primordium.
• located in: coelemic cavity lumen.
• connects: gastro-splenic ligament.

Questions

Where is the spleen?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the lymphatic & immune system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the spleen connect to?

Part of: abdomen, hematopoietic system and immune system.

Is the spleen 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.