stomach in dogs

An expanded region of the vertebrate alimentary tract that serves as a food storage compartment and digestive organ. A stomach is lined, in whole or in part by a glandular epithelium. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the stomach is

An expanded region of the vertebrate alimentary tract that serves as a food storage compartment and digestive organ. A stomach is lined, in whole or in part by a glandular epithelium. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the stomach is

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

What the stomach connects to

The atlas records 30 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive tract and foregut, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: gastroepiploic artery and left gastric artery. Innervation: vagus nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as stomach chamber, anterior intestine, gaster, mesenteron and ventriculus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000945, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive tract, foregut and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and digestive system element.
• contains: epithelium of stomach, forestomach-glandular stomach junction, mesentery of stomach, mucosa of stomach, stomach glandular epithelium and stomach smooth muscle, and 4 more.
• contributes to morphology of: digestive system, cardia of stomach, fundus of stomach, mesentery of stomach, murine forestomach and pylorus, and 1 more.
• flows to: duodenum and esophagus.
• Supplied by: gastroepiploic artery and left gastric artery.
• participates in: Digestion.
• connects: gastro-splenic ligament.

Questions

Where is the stomach?

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

What does the stomach connect to?

Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive tract, foregut and organ.

Is the stomach 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.