abdomen

The subdivision of the vertebrate body between the thorax and pelvis. The ventral part of the abdomen contains the abdominal cavity and visceral organs. The dorsal part includes the abdominal section of the vertebral column. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the abdomen is

The subdivision of the vertebrate body between the thorax and pelvis. The ventral part of the abdomen contains the abdominal cavity and visceral organs. The dorsal part includes the abdominal section of the vertebral column. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the abdomen is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the abdomen connects to

The atlas records 92 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of abdominal segment of trunk.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: splanchnic nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as abdominopelvic region, abdominopelvis, adult abdomen, belly and celiac region. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000916, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdominal segment of trunk.
• A kind of: subdivision of trunk.
• contains: abdomen musculature, abdominal cavity, abdominal fascia, abdominal lymph node, abdominal viscera and abdominal wall, and 77 more.
• left of: left adrenal gland and left inguinal part of abdomen.
• right of: right adrenal gland and right inguinal part of abdomen.
• overlaps: abdominal aorta.
• develops into: nephron.
• Innervated by: splanchnic nerve.

Questions

Where is the abdomen?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the abdomen connect to?

Part of: abdominal segment of trunk.

Is the abdomen the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.