upper respiratory tract in dogs

The segment of the respiratory tract that starts proximally with the nose and ends distally with the cricoid cartilage, before continuing to the trachea. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the upper respiratory tract is

The segment of the respiratory tract that starts proximally with the nose and ends distally with the cricoid cartilage, before continuing to the trachea. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the upper respiratory tract is

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

What the upper respiratory tract connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of proximo-distal subdivision of respiratory tract.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the upper respiratory tract. 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.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001557, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: proximo-distal subdivision of respiratory tract.
• contains: nose, nasal cavity, nasal cavity mucosa, nasopharynx, Reichert's cartilage and upper respiratory tract epithelium.

Questions

Where is the upper respiratory tract?

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

What does the upper respiratory tract connect to?

A kind of: proximo-distal subdivision of respiratory tract.

Is the upper respiratory tract 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.