artery
An epithelial tube or tree of tibes that transports blood away from the heart[modified from AEO definition]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the artery is
An epithelial tube or tree of tibes that transports blood away from the heart[modified from AEO definition]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the artery is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the artery connects to
The atlas records 209 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of cardiovascular system and vascular system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the 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 arterial subtree, arterial tree organ part, arteries, arterial system and arterial vessel. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001637, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: cardiovascular system and vascular system.
- A kind of: blood vessel and vascular system.
- subtype: accessory meningeal artery, alveolar artery, anterior cecal artery, anterior choroidal artery, anterior ciliary artery and anterior communicating artery, and 188 more.
- contains: artery smooth muscle tissue, artery wall, endothelium of artery, intra-acinar arteriole, tunica adventitia of artery and tunica intima of artery, and 1 more.
- located in: arterial blood.
- connects: arteriole.
- contributes to morphology of: arteriole.
- develops into: transformed artery.
Questions
Where is the artery?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the artery connect to?
Part of: cardiovascular system and vascular system.
Is the artery 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.