blood vessel endothelium
An endothelium that lines the blood vasculature. Other endothelia may line lymph vessels, the heart. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the blood vessel endothelium is
An endothelium that lines the blood vasculature. Other endothelia may line lymph vessels, the heart. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.
Where the blood vessel endothelium is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the blood vessel endothelium connects to
The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of blood vessel and cardiovascular system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the blood vessel endothelium. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004638, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: blood vessel and cardiovascular system.
- A kind of: endothelium.
- subtype: continuous capillary, endothelium of arteriole, endothelium of artery, endothelium of capillary, endothelium of vein and endothelium of venule, and 3 more.
Questions
Where is the blood vessel endothelium?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the blood vessel endothelium connect to?
Part of: blood vessel and cardiovascular system.
Is the blood vessel endothelium 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.