bile duct
Any of the ducts that form the biliary tree, carrying bile from the liver to the small intestine. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the bile duct is
Any of the ducts that form the biliary tree, carrying bile from the liver to the small intestine. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the bile duct is
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the bile duct connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of biliary tree and digestive system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the bile duct. 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 tube, biliary duct, gall duct and hepatic duct. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002394, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: biliary tree and digestive system.
- A kind of: anatomical conduit, anatomical structure and duct.
- subtype: common hepatic duct, extrahepatic bile duct, hepatic duct, hepatopancreatic ampulla and intrahepatic bile duct.
- contains: bile canaliculus and biliary ductule.
- contributes to morphology of: biliary tree.
- composed of: biliary tree.
Questions
Where is the bile duct?
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the bile duct connect to?
Part of: biliary tree and digestive system.
Is the bile duct 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.