aortic valve

Cardiac valve which has as its parts the anterior, right posterior and left posterior cusps, attached to the fibrous ring of aortic valve.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the aortic valve is

Cardiac valve which has as its parts the anterior, right posterior and left posterior cusps, attached to the fibrous ring of aortic valve.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the aortic valve is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the aortic valve connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of outflow part of left ventricle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the aortic valve. 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 valva aortae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002137, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: outflow part of left ventricle.
• A kind of: cardiac valve.
• contributes to morphology of: aortic valve anulus and aortic valve cusp.
• contains: aortic valve anulus and aortic valve cusp.

Questions

Where is the aortic valve?

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the aortic valve connect to?

Part of: outflow part of left ventricle.

Is the aortic valve 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.