bile canaliculus

An intercellular channel that takes up bile from hepatocytes, transporting it to the bile ducts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the bile canaliculus is

An intercellular channel that takes up bile from hepatocytes, transporting it to the bile ducts. The atlas records it as a cavity at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the bile canaliculus is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive and endocrine systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the bile canaliculus connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of bile duct, hepatic acinus and hepatic cord, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the bile canaliculus. 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 bile canaliculi, bile capillary and biliary canaliculus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001283, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: bile duct, hepatic acinus, hepatic cord and liver lobule.
A kind of: anatomical space.
contributes to morphology of: liver lobule.

Questions

Where is the bile canaliculus?

What does the bile canaliculus connect to?

Part of: bile duct, hepatic acinus, hepatic cord and liver lobule.

Is the bile canaliculus 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.