blood vessel
A vessel through which blood circulates in the body. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the blood vessel is
A vessel through which blood circulates in the body. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the blood vessel is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the blood vessel connects to
The atlas records 237 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of blood vasculature, cardiovascular system and intestinal villus, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the blood vessel. 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 vascular element, region of vascular tree organ, vascular tree organ region and vas sanguineum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001981, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: blood vasculature, cardiovascular system, intestinal villus and vascular plexus.
- A kind of: vessel.
- subtype: accessory meningeal artery, accessory saphenous vein, angular vein, anterior auricular vein, anterior cecal artery and anterior ethmoidal artery, and 201 more.
- contains: aorta tunica adventitia, aorta tunica intima, blood vessel endothelium, blood vessel external elastic membrane, blood vessel internal elastic membrane and blood vessel smooth muscle, and 13 more.
- composed of: blood vasculature and blood vessel layer of choroid.
- transports: foramen of nasal bone and haversian canal.
- Develops from: splanchnic layer of lateral plate mesoderm.
- located in: baroreceptor.
Questions
Where is the blood vessel?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the blood vessel connect to?
Part of: blood vasculature, cardiovascular system, intestinal villus and vascular plexus.
Is the blood vessel 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.