central retinal artery

The central retinal artery (retinal artery) branches off the ophthalmic artery, running inferior to the optic nerve within its dural sheath to the eyeball. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the central retinal artery is

The central retinal artery (retinal artery) branches off the ophthalmic artery, running inferior to the optic nerve within its dural sheath to the eyeball. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the central retinal artery is

It sits in the head, within the cardiovascular, nervous and sensory 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 central retinal artery connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of blood vasculature, head and retina, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the central retinal 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 Zinn's artery, central artery of retina, retinal artery, arteria centralis retinae and central artery of the retina. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001620, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: blood vasculature, head, retina, vasculature of head and vasculature of retina.
A kind of: artery and blood vessel.
Supplies: retina.
Develops from: hyaloid artery.

Questions

Where is the central retinal artery?

What does the central retinal artery connect to?

Part of: blood vasculature, head, retina, vasculature of head and vasculature of retina.

Is the central retinal 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.