vertebral artery in dogs

The first branch of the left and right subclavian arteries that merge to form the single midline basilar artery; branches of the vertebral arteries supply the musculature of the neck. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vertebral artery is

The first branch of the left and right subclavian arteries that merge to form the single midline basilar artery; branches of the vertebral arteries supply the musculature of the neck. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the vertebral artery is

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

What the vertebral artery connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of spinal artery.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vertebral artery. 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 arteria vertebralis and vertebral arteries. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001535, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: spinal artery.
• Supplies: spinal cord.
• develops into: basilar artery.

Questions

Where is the vertebral artery?

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

What does the vertebral artery connect to?

A kind of: spinal artery.

Is the vertebral artery 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.